Böddenstedt has the form of a Haufendorf or irregularly nucleated village.

There were good reasons why the nucleated village should survive more or less intact.

Most of the settlements in this area were nucleated villages and hunting camps.

There is no nucleated village and no church in the parish.

It is now thought that the buildings were tenant tofts attached to the manor, and not a nucleated village.

The site is similar to eastern Polynesian nucleated villages.

A nucleated village is one of the main types of settlement pattern.

In some cases two adjacent nucleated villages may expand and merge to form a polyfocal settlement.

One particular sub-category of nucleated villages is a planned village.

The nucleated village of 250 residents (as of December 31, 2005) is primarily agricultural.