Is St Ives a good place to live?

St Ives has 16,818 residents, 92% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding. Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any St Ives postcode.

How many people live in St Ives?

16,818 people live in St Ives (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 9.4 km² — about 1,788 per km².

What are the schools like in St Ives?

There are 6 schools inside St Ives; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include St Ivo Academy, Eastfield Infant and Nursery School and Thorndown Primary School.

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Town · in Huntingdonshire · East of England · 11 neighbourhoods

Living in St Ives

St Ives is a town in Huntingdonshire, East of England, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every St Ives postcode.

St Ives is a town of 16,818 people at 1,788 per km², where 92% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 4 of its 4 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding.

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16,818St Ives population

1,788people per km²

92%live in England's better-off half

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schools stations parks9.4 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in St Ives

What's in St Ives: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops

Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.

●Schools100% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding6

●GP practices · hospitals4 pharmacies, 5 dentists10 · 0

●Rail stations · bus stops0 · 0

●Parks & playing fields35.2 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)16

●Supermarkets4

●Libraries1

02 — Schools in St Ives

Best-rated schools in St Ives

1St Ivo AcademySecondaryGood 2Eastfield Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimaryGood 3Thorndown Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 4Westfield Junior SchoolPrimaryGood 5Aurora Fairway SchoolOther—

Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 6 schools → Schools in St Ives

03 — St Ives crime rate

St Ives crime rate

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04 — Questions about St Ives

Is St Ives a good place to live?: St Ives has 16,818 residents, 92% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding. Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any St Ives postcode.
How many people live in St Ives?: 16,818 people live in St Ives (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 9.4 km² — about 1,788 per km².
What are the schools like in St Ives?: There are 6 schools inside St Ives; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include St Ivo Academy, Eastfield Infant and Nursery School and Thorndown Primary School.
Where is St Ives?: St Ives is a town in Huntingdonshire, East of England, England.

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This page is NestScope's guide to St Ives as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.

Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.