Ashill
Village · 644 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 29, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ashill
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ashill a good place to live?
Ashill scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
It scores lowest on health (29) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ashill in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ashill
Ashill sits well back from any main road, the kind of place where detached houses on generous plots outnumber everything else and you notice the quiet before you notice anything architectural. There's no high street to speak of, no cluster of shops pulling in passing trade — this is a village built around distance from things, not proximity to them, and the people who live here have generally chosen that on purpose.
The one school in the village, Ashill Voluntary Controlled Primary, is rated Good and carries just over a hundred pupils, which tells you most families here are settled rather than passing through — that reading is backed up by a median age of 55.6, well above the national figure of 40.4. This is not a village geared around commuting; the connectivity and transport grades both come in at C, and there's no rail station in the picture, so anyone working away from home is doing it by car, likely into Thetford or further into Norfolk's other market towns. Housing is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — of the recent sales sampled, fifteen of twenty-three were detached houses, and every single one was freehold, so a for-sale board here almost always means a house with land, sold outright, not a leasehold flat or new-build estate. At a median of £273,000, prices sit modestly above the wider Breckland district average by about 6%, and detached homes specifically undercut the national detached median by a wide margin — you're paying Norfolk prices for a house type that costs considerably more elsewhere.