Ford Place
Suburb · 37 residents
47Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
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: 54 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 27, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ford Place
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Is Ford Place a good place to live?
Ford Place scores 47/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80) and affordability (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (27) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ford Place in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ford Place
Detached houses on generous plots, hedges rather than fences, and the kind of quiet that comes from a population you could fit in a couple of large schools — Ford Place reads as a small, settled pocket of Breckland rather than a place with a high street of its own. There's no sense of passing trade here; this is a destination only if you already know why you're coming.
The practical picture is straightforward but has edges worth knowing. Harling Road Rail Station gives you a line out without needing a car for everything, though the overall transport grade sits well below the rest of the area's profile, suggesting that beyond the station itself, getting around locally leans heavily on driving. Schooling is more mixed than the area's solid overall grade would suggest: the sample school, Queensway Junior Academy, carries an Inadequate Ofsted rating, which is the kind of detail that would make a parent dig further rather than take the area's B-grade schooling score at face value. The housing stock is dominated by freehold detached homes, and at a median sale price around £356,000 — roughly 40% above the Breckland parent average — a For Sale board here is signalling space and permanence rather than a bargain entry point.
Green space is thin on the ground in a literal sense: with well under four hectares across a single named space, this isn't an area built around parkland, so weekend life likely means driving out rather than walking to it. What stands out more is the safety picture — an A grade for safety against a backdrop of just seven recorded crimes in the past year, with violence and sexual offences the largest single share, though the trend is flat rather than worsening, meaning this is simply a low-crime area holding steady rather than one on an improving or declining trajectory. Health provision scores only a C+, a notch below the area's otherwise strong grades, which is worth weighing if ongoing medical access matters to you. Council tax at Band D runs below the national median, a small offset against the house prices.