Felmingham is the kind of place where the streetscape barely registers as a streetscape at all — scattered houses, hedgerows, a handful of roads that lead somewhere else. With fewer than 400 people spread thinly across the parish, this is a village in the proper sense, not a commuter suburb wearing a village name. The median age sits well above the national figure, and you feel that here: this is a settled population, not a young one chasing a starter home. There's no rail station in the picture for Felmingham, and the transport grade reflects that — a C, well below the marks the area gets everywhere else. This is a place you drive from, not a place you commute from by train. Schooling locally centres on Swanton Abbott Community Primary, a small community school with around 56 pupils — the kind of place where your child is known by name, though there's no Ofsted rating on record to lean on. On housing, the numbers tell a story of relative affordability rather than stretch: the affordability grade is a solid B+, and against North Norfolk's own median house price this doesn't read as a premium corner of the district — Felmingham sits in unshowy, everyday village territory rather than the estuary-view end of the market. Green space is modest rather than abundant — five plots totalling under four hectares, which for a village this size means space is there but not sprawling; you're not getting parkland, you're getting a field and a footpath. There's nothing in the picture here on restaurants or named pubs, so it would be guesswork to paint you a Saturday around a table — what you can say with more confidence is the safety picture, and it's the one figure worth sitting with. Ten crimes in twelve months, in a village of this size, is a small number in absolute terms, yet violence and sexual offences account for well over a third of it, more than public order and theft combined. Against that, the overall safety grade still comes out at A+ — which tells you the raw count, though headline-grabbing in category, is genuinely low against national patterns; a handful of incidents in a small population can skew the categories without meaning the streets feel unsafe. That contrast — near-top safety grade sitting alongside a crime breakdown dominated by one serious-sounding category — is worth knowing rather than worrying over. This is a village for people who've already decided they want quiet over convenience: no station, a small school, thin green space but usable, and prices that don't punish you for choosing rural Norfolk over the coast. It suits someone who drives everywhere, likes knowing their neighbours, and isn't chasing nightlife or a fast commute. It would suit less well anyone who needs a train line in daily reach or wants the reassurance of a big, rated secondary school on the doorstep.