Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 1,743 residents, it is a village in Cambridgeshire, East of England. 50% of households own their home outright.
Work and incomes are strong: households earn a mean £60,532 a year, and 1.5% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Health is a strength: life expectancy is 80.7 for men and 85.2 for women. Schools lag (C): primary results beat 38% of towns in England; secondary results beat 29% of towns in England. Safety is weaker too: 31.9 violent or sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year, plus 8.4 home and vehicle crimes. Against UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, it has more crime per resident than 83%. Homes sell for a median £307,500, about 5.8 years of what households in the Peterborough council area earn.
Figures: income and life expectancy, ONS · claimants, DWP · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years. An overall grade needs 2,500 residents, so Glinton is graded subject by subject only.
The 3 things Glinton does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Glinton is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic England lists them inside Glinton’s built-up area.
9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Glinton.
Glinton has no GP practice of its own; the nearest is 3.3 miles away. At the census, 4.2% of residents said their health was bad or very bad, near Cambridgeshire’s towns (4.4%) and lower than England’s towns (5.2%). The nearest A&E to Glinton is Peterborough City Hospital, 3.8 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Glinton | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 85% | 84% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.2% | 4.4% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 17% | 16% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy and early deaths.
Attainment 8 at the 2 secondary schools within 3 km averages 42.3, and two in five pupils get grade 5 or above in English and maths. Its two schools are listed below. Between them, one primary and one secondary teach 1,869 pupils in Glinton.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peakirk-Cum-Glinton Cofe Primary AcademyLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 197 | C+ |
| Arthur Mellows Village CollegeLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,672 | B− |
Violence and sexual offences made up 57% of the total. Over the year to August 2026, 75 offences were reported in Glinton, along with 8 incidents of anti-social behaviour. There were 5.6 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), below both Cambridgeshire’s towns (9.3) and England’s towns (7.8).
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Homes from before 1919 make up 9% of the total, lower than both Cambridgeshire’s towns (12%) and England’s towns (16%). Glinton counts 31 listed buildings on the national list (Historic England): 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II*. Its listed buildings include the Church of St Benedict, Grade I.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 37% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
The car carried 83% of commuters at the census. Just over a quarter of commuters travelled under 5 km, below Cambridgeshire’s towns (44%) and England’s towns (45%) alike. For every resident in work, Glinton has 1.3 jobs. About 9% of its commuters stay in Glinton for work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Social housing holds 8% of households, below Cambridgeshire’s towns (16%) and England’s towns (18%) alike. Households that own their home make up 86%. The £307,500 median rests on 48 standard sales inside the built-up area (September 2023 to August 2026).
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £330,000 | 25 |
| Semi-detached | £285,000 | 15 |
| Terraced | £233,000 | 7 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The middle age in Glinton is 49.5. 15% are under 15, lower than both Cambridgeshire’s towns (18%) and England’s towns (18%). Degrees are held by 31% of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Glinton | Cambridgeshire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 28% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 25% | 25% |
| 65+ | 24% | 17% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 7% | 5% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| Degree level | 31% | 37% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Cambridgeshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glinton | 1,743 | — | — | B− | C | B+ |
| Northborough | 1,336 | 1.6 | — | B− | A | B+ |
| Helpston | 1,249 | 2.2 | — | C | A | A |
| Deeping St James | 7,255 | 2.6 | A | A | A− | A− |
| Newborough | 1,469 | 3 | — | B | A | B+ |
| Market Deeping | 6,533 | 3.2 | B | A− | B− | B− |
| Peterborough | 190,592 | 4.4 | C | A− | D | C− |
| Langtoft | 2,010 | 4.6 | — | B | A+ | A |
Northborough, Helpston, Newborough and Langtoft have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
That is 7.3 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I building is Church of St Benedict.
Burglary was rare, with 1 report in the year.
GCSE results trail 71% of towns in England, and primary results trail 62% (Department for Education, Attainment 8 and Key Stage 2). Glinton has 2 state schools; places are handled by Peterborough council.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Village in Cambridgeshire, England
Glinton is a built-up area of 1,743 people, in the Peterborough council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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