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Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Saffron Walden. This local area guide brings together 624 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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£128 below Average across published towns and cities in England
612.119 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£128,197 above Average across published towns and cities in England
23.9 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£85 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£256 below Average across published towns and cities in England
3 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
2.2 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£162,032 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£160,672 above Average across published towns and cities in England
The scale is logarithmic, with marks at 100 m, 1 km and 10 km.
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Home energy certificates · Lower than most
82.6%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Air, land & environment · Lower than most
-13 m
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Terrain 50 · 2026-07
Nature & green space · Lower than most
2.0 ha
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Protected sites / habitats datasets · 2026-08-24
Schools & childcare · Higher than most
9
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Ofsted childcare providers and inspections · 2026-03-31
Health & care · Higher than most
7
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
27
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
25
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
108
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
68
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
361
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
87
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
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Mapped Nitrate Vulnerable Zone records are temporarily unavailable for Saffron Walden. This does not establish whether any designation intersects the settlement outline or indicate water quality.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Saffron Walden settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 1 — inner protection zone, within a 50-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 2 — outer protection zone, within a 400-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Saffron Walden; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
624 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.