Castle Rising
Village · 573 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 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
- Environment scores 89, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 80, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 59 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Flood risk: 12% 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 Castle Rising
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Castle Rising a good place to live?
Castle Rising scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (89) and affordability (80).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Castle Rising in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Castle Rising
Castle Rising is the kind of village where the houses are detached, the gardens are proper-sized, and nobody's in a hurry on the lane past the castle grounds. It's a small place — barely over a thousand people — and it reads that way: quiet frontages, mature trees, the sense that most people here have been here a while rather than just arrived.
That last point matters, because the median age sits well above the national and regional norms, and the property picture backs it up: what sells here is almost exclusively detached freehold housing, with nothing on the market as new-build. A For Sale board on this street is announcing a family house bought outright, not a first-rung flat or a buy-to-let unit. Prices reflect that too — a median around £375,000 puts Castle Rising above both the national and regional typical figures, and comfortably above neighbouring King's Lynn and West Norfolk, where prices run roughly a third lower. Combined with a top income decile and a comfortably-off deprivation ranking, this is a village for people who are established, not starting out. The trade-off is transport and schooling: connectivity and transport grades sit in the middling-to-weak band, and the schools grade lands in the same territory, so if you need an Ofsted-rated primary on your doorstep or a fast rail commute, you won't find the reassurance here that the housing stock's price tag might suggest.
Green space is generous for a village this size — four sites totalling nearly 55 hectares, well above the per-capita norm elsewhere — so the rhythm of life leans outdoors: dog walks, the castle grounds themselves, that kind of unhurried use of space rather than a high street of cafés and restaurants. There isn't much to report on a dining-out scene here, which fits the picture of a residential, garden-facing village rather than a destination one. Safety is the quiet strength running under everything: the overall grade sits comfortably above average, crime numbers are low in absolute terms, and even the largest single category — shoplifting — reads as a retail-crime statistic rather than a lived threat in a village with barely any commercial footprint. Health provision scores solidly too, a notch above merely average.