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Crowfield

Crowfield is a village in Suffolk, England, with a population of around 361. It has around 1 restaurant or café and 2 bus stops, with the nearest railway station being Needham Market, 6.3 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Crowfield area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Mid Suffolk area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 102,695 residents at roughly 118 people per km².

Council
Mid Suffolk
County
Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Police force
Suffolk
74/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 8th of 294 English council areas — better than 97% of them.

Home affordability54
Affordable rents70
Good schools58
Life expectancy94
Low deprivation72
Employment92
Low council tax78

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. Scored on 80% of the full weighting — some data isn't available here. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

17°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 22° / 17° · 80% rain
  • Tomorrow: 25° / 17° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:25Sunset 19:17

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Crime

1 reported · July 2026

  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Mid-Suffolk North and East · Suffolk

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social behaviour in the Rickinghall and Bottesdale area on Friday evenings specifically outside the Co-Op in Rickinghall
  • Preventing Acquisitive Crime. There has been a rise in burglaries and thefts across the local area, including incidents targeting homes,…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

139 reported road collisions (2024)

36 killed or seriously injured · 184 casualties · 13.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

9 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 7 rated 4–5 ★ (7 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Needham Market (6.3 km)
  • 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Needham Market (6.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£320,276 average 5.8% YoY

Across Mid Suffolk · to 2026-06

Detached£447,263
Semi-detached£279,689
Terraced£225,032
Flat£140,641

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,001 average monthly rent 5.8% YoY

  • 1 bed £718
  • 2 bed £919
  • 3 bed £1,118

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 161.9p · Asda (9.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Asda (9.8 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

4 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Coddenham Centre (3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools3
  • Sports pitches2
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

102,695 residents in Mid Suffolk · 118/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 229 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,317 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (27% of 50,370)

A £1,545
B £1,802
C £2,059
D £2,317
E £2,832
F £3,347
G £3,861
H £4,634

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

57 schools · 14,148 pupils

46 primary · 7 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 18 of 20 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (90%)

54inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Debenham High SchoolGood
  • Stowupland High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Claydon High School
  • Hartismere School
  • Stowmarket High School
  • Stradbroke High School
  • Thurston Community College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Mid Suffolk

Care & health services

691 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes196
  • GP practices91
  • Dentists136
  • Homecare agencies209
  • Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 11 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Suffolk

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 30 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

187 applications decided

89.8% granted · 168 granted, 19 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Patrick Spencer

Conservative

Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • NoClosure motion
  • AyeSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • NoDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Green majority

  • Con 3
  • LD 4
  • Grn 23
  • Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,565 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£764 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,233 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 49,211 certificates

10.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

55% low-carbon electricity

Gas 43% · Nuclear 23% · Solar 22% · Biomass 6%

177 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82.6 yrs men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction8.0
  • Feeling worthwhile8.0
  • Happiness yesterday7.7
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Crowfield Windmill · 0.2 km

    Crowfield Windmill is a smock mill at Crowfield, Suffolk, England which has been conserved.

  • Crowfield, Suffolk · 0.8 km

    Crowfield is a village in Suffolk, England. It is in Helmingham and Coddenham ward in the Mid Suffolk local authority, in the East of England region.

  • Gosbeck Wood · 1.4 km

    Gosbeck Wood is a 22.8-hectare (56-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Needham Market in Suffolk.

  • Gosbeck · 1.5 km

    Gosbeck is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around five miles north of Ipswich, in 2005 its population was 220.

  • Crowfield Airfield · 2.3 km

    Crowfield Airfield is a privately owned airfield located in Suffolk in the east of England. It has 2 grass runways.

  • Pettaugh · 2.8 km

    Pettaugh is a village and civil parish located within the district council area of Mid Suffolk, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Crowfield?
Crowfield is a town in Suffolk, England, in the Mid Suffolk local authority.
What is the population of Crowfield?
Crowfield has an approximate settlement population of 361.
How deprived is Crowfield?
The Mid Suffolk local authority, which includes Crowfield, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.