Ingoldisthorpe
Village · 399 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 20 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 57% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ingoldisthorpe
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ingoldisthorpe a good place to live?
Ingoldisthorpe scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ingoldisthorpe in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ingoldisthorpe
Ingoldisthorpe is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached brick and flint sitting on generous plots, most of them owned outright rather than mortgaged to the hilt, with barely a flat or a new-build estate in sight. It's a village in the proper sense — a scatter of homes rather than a high street with a queue outside a bakery — and the people who live here have mostly been here a while. A median age north of sixty tells you this isn't a place filling up with first-time buyers; it's a place people settle into and stay.
The practical picture is straightforward once you see the shape of it. There's no rail station in the village itself, and the transport grade sits at a C — the weak point in an otherwise comfortable set of scores — so this is a driving life, not a commuting one, whatever your job. Schools average out respectably rather than spectacularly, and with so few children in the population count, education isn't really what's shaping daily life here. Housing is the story instead: a median sale price around £357,000, well above both the national figure and even the regional one, and a full third higher than the wider King's Lynn and West Norfolk district it sits within. Detached houses dominate absolutely — eleven of thirteen recent sales — and freehold ownership is close to universal. A for-sale board here means a family home on its own land, not a starter flat.
Green space is modest in raw terms — a handful of pockets rather than a park you'd plan a day around — but the flint-cottage lanes and the Norfolk coast within reach do the heavier lifting for a weekend than any single named amenity could. This isn't a place with a restaurant scene to speak of; you'll drive to Hunstanton or King's Lynn for that, and most people here already know it and don't mind. What you get instead is quiet, and the crime figures back that up: an A for safety, just three recorded incidents in the past year, and a trend holding flat rather than drifting either way. Look inside that low number and violence and sexual offences make up the biggest single share, which is typical of how small rural crime counts get categorised — one or two incidents can dominate the percentages without meaning a pattern.