Blofield Heath
Village · 1,276 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 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: 19 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 14, below the typical 60
- Health scores 21, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Blofield Heath
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Blofield Heath a good place to live?
Blofield Heath scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (96) and affordability (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (14) and health (21).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blofield Heath in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blofield Heath
Detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, cars that skew towards estates and SUVs rather than hatchbacks — Blofield Heath reads as a place people move to once they've stopped needing to be anywhere else in a hurry. The median age of 54.4 against a national figure of 40.4 tells you plainly who's on the electoral roll here: settled couples and retirees rather than young households finding their feet.
There's no rail station in the picture for this village, and the connectivity and transport grades sit at C+ and C respectively, so this is a driving life, not a commuting one — if you need a station platform every weekday morning, you'll be doing a fair bit of the journey by car before you find one. Schooling is thin on the ground too, with just the one school in the immediate area, Hemblington Primary School, rated Good with 142 pupils; families here are clearly buying into the wider Broadland catchment rather than a village-based school run. Housing leans hard toward detached freehold homes — seven of the nine recent sales were detached, and all nine were freehold — which is the classic signature of a settled-owner village rather than a rental or first-time-buyer market. At a median of £385,000, prices sit noticeably above the Broadland average by about 27%, and well above the national median of £281,000, though still shy of the top-end postcodes in the region.
Green space is modest rather than expansive — three sites totalling under four hectares — so this isn't a village built around a large park or common; it's smaller pockets you'd use for a dog walk rather than a day out. There's no named restaurant or pub cluster in the picture here, which fits a place where evening life is quiet by design: the nightlife grade lands at a plain C, and that's consistent with the character rather than a warning sign. Health services get a middling C+, worth knowing if you're planning for the long term rather than just the school run. Safety is the standout: an A+ grade and just eight recorded crimes in twelve months, with violence and sexual offences the largest single category but from a very low base — this is a place where the crime figures are genuinely reassuring rather than merely low-looking.