Denver
Village · 392 residents
50Fair
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
- Environment scores 76, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 65% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Denver
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Denver a good place to live?
Denver scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80) and environment (76).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and health (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Denver in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Denver
Denver sits low and quiet against the Fens, the kind of place where detached houses on generous plots outnumber almost everything else and the traffic you hear is more likely a tractor than a bus. It's small enough that you'd learn the postmen's names within a month. The average age here nudges 51, well above the national median of 40, and that shows in the pace: this is not a place that hums with young energy so much as one that has settled into itself.
There's no rail station in the immediate picture, so anyone weighing up a daily commute needs to be honest about the drive that involves — this is a village built around cars and lanes, not platforms, and the transport grade (a middling C against strong marks elsewhere) reflects that plainly. Schooling is a more reassuring story: Denver Voluntary Controlled Primary School and Hilgay Riverside Academy are both rated Good, modest in size at just over a hundred and around seventy pupils respectively, the kind of small-school setting where a child is a name, not a number. Housing leans heavily towards detached freehold homes — of a small recent sample, six of ten sales were detached and every single one was freehold — so a For Sale board here is almost always advertising outright ownership of a standalone house, not a share of a block or a leasehold flat. Prices, at a median around £252,500, sit a little below the wider district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk and well under the regional average, which is worth noting given the area's affordability grade comes out strong (B+) even though the housing grade itself is more middling, pulled down perhaps by the thinness of choice rather than the cost.