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Gislingham

Gislingham is a village in Suffolk, England, with a population of around 669. It has 4 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Brockford, 7.7 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Gislingham 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
Bury St Edmunds
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

15°CMist

  • Today: 22° / 14° · 57% rain
  • Tomorrow: 24° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:22Sunset 19:22

13h 1m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Crime

1 reported · July 2026 50% YoY

  • Public order1

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

6 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Brockford (7.7 km)
  • 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Diss (9.6 km):

Loading live departures…

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: 165.9p · Morrisons (9.1 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Morrisons (9.1 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

4 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 22 kW
  • Nearest: PIS Cotton VH (4.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools1
  • 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
  • 39 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

Adrian Ramsay

Green Party

Waveney Valley

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • AyeHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140
  • AyeHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145
  • AyeHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6

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

  • Schools1

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

82% low-carbon electricity

Wind 49% · Nuclear 22% · Gas 17% · Biomass 11%

81 gCO₂/kWh · low 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 Waveney Valley:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Gislingham · 0.6 km

    Gislingham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.

  • Hartismere Hundred · 1.9 km

    Hartismere was a hundred of Suffolk, that later gave its name to a poor law union, a rural sanitary district, and the Hartismere Rural District.

  • Finningham · 2.2 km

    Finningham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in the East of England, located approximately 7.5 miles north of Stowmarket and 16 miles from the county town of Ipswich. In 2011 its pop…

  • Thornham Magna · 2.8 km

    Thornham Magna is the larger sister village of Thornham Parva on the former estate of Thornham Hall, the Henniker family seat, in Suffolk. It is about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from Eye and close to the A140 road from Norwic…

  • Wickham Skeith · 3.3 km

    Wickham Skeith is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about 5 miles to the west of Eye and about 3 miles east of Finningham.

  • Westhorpe Hall · 3.4 km

    Westhorpe Hall was a manor house in Westhorpe, Suffolk, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Gislingham?
Gislingham is a town in Suffolk, England, in the Mid Suffolk local authority.
What is the population of Gislingham?
Gislingham has an approximate settlement population of 669.
How deprived is Gislingham?
The Mid Suffolk local authority, which includes Gislingham, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.