Holland
Suburb · 39 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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: 77 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 38, where 60 is typical
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Holland a good place to live?
Holland scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (26) and health (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Holland in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Holland
Holland reads as low-density and settled — houses set back from the road, hedges rather than walls, the kind of streetscape where you notice a For Sale board precisely because they don't come up that often. With a population of just over 400 spread thinly across the ground, this is not a place with a high street bustling with footfall; it's a place people drive out of and come home to.
The housing here does most of the talking. Semi-detached houses dominate the sales mix, freehold is very much the norm, and with a median sale price around £560,000, Holland sits comfortably above both the regional and national norms — though it's still notably cheaper than its parent district of Tandridge, where prices run nearly 18% higher. That gap is worth sitting with: this is a village-like pocket inside a pricier district, which for some buyers is the whole appeal. Schools follow a similar local, small-scale pattern — Holland Junior School serves the immediate area, and families needing extra support have Moor House School & College and Limpsfield Grange School close by, both specialist provisions rather than mainstream comprehensives. Limpsfield CofE Infant School carries a Good rating. None of this is postbox-to-station commuter territory; there's no rail count to speak of here, so this reads as a driving village rather than a walk-to-the-platform one.
Green space per head is a little below the regional average, but at this density it barely matters — gardens do a lot of the work that parks do elsewhere. What stands out more is the safety picture: an A grade for safety against a B+ overall, which is the one grade here that pulls ahead of the pack rather than matching it. The crime total is genuinely low in absolute terms, and even though violence and anti-social behaviour top the local breakdown by share, the raw numbers are small enough that this reads as background noise rather than a pattern to worry about — the trend is flat, not worsening. Connectivity and transport both sit at B+, suggesting decent broadband and reasonable road links even without a station on the doorstep.