Holkham
Village · 338 residents
69Good
Good · better than 8 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 98, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 59 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Health scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Flood risk: 36% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Holkham
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Holkham a good place to live?
Holkham scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (98) and safety (84).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and infrastructure (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Holkham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Holkham
Holkham reads as parkland before it reads as village — a scatter of estate cottages and farm buildings sitting inside a working landscape rather than a high street. There's no bustle to describe because there isn't really a centre to bustle in; what you notice instead is the scale of the open ground around you and how few people you pass while noticing it.
That impression holds up in the numbers. Population density here is a fraction of the regional average, and at 717 people the place functions more like a hamlet attached to a large estate than a settlement in its own right. The safety grade sits at the top of the scale, and even though the crime count leans heavily on one category, violence and sexual offences, the raw total across a year is small enough that a single cluster of incidents can dominate the percentages without changing the lived feel of the place. That's the one grade worth sitting with: an otherwise top-tier profile with a crime mix that looks more urban than the setting suggests, largely because the base numbers are so low that proportions swing easily.
Housing here is not cheap relative to where it sits nationally or locally. A median price around £435,000 is well above the England-wide median and roughly 43% above the North Norfolk figure it belongs to, which tells you this is one of the pricier corners of an already comfortable district — despite an income decile that puts the area on the lower side nationally. That combination, higher property values than the surrounding district but a modest income ranking, points toward a place shaped by second homes, retirement money, and estate-linked employment rather than by local wages. The property mix backs this up: a small sample of recent sales splits mostly between detached and semi-detached houses, nearly all freehold, with nothing new-built among them — the kind of stock that turns over rarely and tends to stay in longer hands. Broadband is patchy rather than uniform, with full fibre reaching under half of homes, worth checking street by street if working from home matters to you.