Holt
Town · 3,781 residents
68Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 towns
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 89, well above the typical 60
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- 22 places to eat and drink
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Holt
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Holt a good place to live?
Holt scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (89) and health (82).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and infrastructure (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Holt in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Holt
Holt reads as a market town in miniature: Georgian and Victorian brick fronts along the high street, independent shops rather than chains, and a noticeable lean towards an older crowd going about unhurried business. The median age here sits close to fifty-nine, a good eighteen years above the national figure, and you feel that in the pace of the place rather than in any particular building — this is not a town built around young families or nightlife, whatever the after-dark grade might suggest.
Property here means detached houses bought outright: the sales data shows detached homes as the dominant type and freehold as the dominant tenure, with detached prices running slightly above the national median for that type. A median sale price around £327,500 puts Holt roughly 13% above the wider North Norfolk district, so a For Sale board on one of its side streets is generally advertising a comfortable, established home rather than a starter buy or a new-build. Schooling is thin but has a ceiling to it — Holt Community Primary serves the immediate area, and Gresham's School, the independent school with close to nine hundred pupils, gives the town a level of educational pull well beyond its size. Commuting is the trade-off: the local station belongs to the North Norfolk Railway, a heritage line rather than a mainline service, and the connectivity grade reflects a town that expects you to drive rather than commute by rail.
Weekends here run on green space and small pleasures rather than a restaurant scene — fifteen green spaces across the parish, over twenty hectares in total, give Holt a genuinely high ratio of open land to population, well above both the regional and national averages per head. Health provision scores strongly too, part of an overall pattern of grades that sit at A or A+ across environment, housing, safety and nightlife alike. The one figure worth sitting with is crime: violence and sexual offences account for well over a third of recorded incidents, and anti-social behaviour close to another quarter, yet the trend is flat rather than worsening, and the town still carries an overall safety grade of A — a reminder that a low base of incidents can produce large percentage shares without signalling a rising problem.