Caister-on-Sea
Town · 8,746 residents
63Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 towns
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: 51 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 75, well above the typical 60
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- Flood risk: 21% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Caister-on-Sea
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Caister-on-Sea a good place to live?
Caister-on-Sea scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and environment (75).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Caister-on-Sea in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Caister-on-Sea
Caister-on-Sea reads as bungalows and detached houses along wide, quiet roads, with the sort of population that has settled rather than passed through — this is a place where median age sits well into the fifties, closer to retirement than to school runs. The streets don't hustle. There's no strip of restaurants doing loud trade of an evening; this is a village that empties into its own gardens rather than its high street.
Transport is the honest weak point here, graded well below everything else in the picture — there's no rail station drawing commuters in, so anyone working outside Great Yarmouth will be doing it by road. Schooling, meanwhile, is a known local quantity rather than a headline one: Caister Academy and Caister Junior School serve the village directly, with Progress 8 scores around the middle of the national band — solid, not exceptional. Housing is where the numbers do the reassuring: a detached home on a freehold title is the default sale here, and with a median price around £235,000 against a national figure closer to £281,000, a For Sale board on these streets says "space for your money" rather than "get in quick." That price sits about a fifth above neighbouring Great Yarmouth, so you're paying a premium to be on the coast rather than in the town centre, and the five-year price line has stayed close to flat — this is not a market anyone is chasing.
Green space is generously provided for a village this size — seventeen pockets of it, more hectares per head than the regional average — which fits a place built around dog walks and sea air rather than nightlife. Healthcare and environment both grade as solidly average, neither a worry nor a selling point. The one figure that stands out from the otherwise comfortable pattern is safety, graded top of the class locally even though violence and sexual offences make up over half of recorded crime — a category that in a village this size is often driven by a small number of repeat locations or incidents rather than a diffuse street-level risk, and anti-social behaviour and criminal damage trail well behind it. Burglary and vehicle crime, the things that tend to worry homeowners most, are both minor slices of the total.