Kettlestone
Village · 185 residents
48Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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: 38 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Infrastructure scores 28, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Kettlestone
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Kettlestone a good place to live?
Kettlestone scores 48/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (28) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Kettlestone in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Kettlestone
Kettlestone is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached, freehold, set well apart from each other, with none of the new-build estates you'd find closer to Norwich or King's Lynn. Around three hundred people live here, spread thinly across the parish — the population density is a fraction of the regional average — and the median age of 56 tells you this isn't a place filled with young families chasing school catchments. It's a retirement-and-established-household sort of village, quiet by design rather than by accident.
There's no rail station here and the transport grade reflects it — a C that sits well below the near-uniform strength of everything else, the one out-of-pattern note in an otherwise settled picture. If you need a daily commute by train, you'll be driving to reach one; this is a place for people who've already arranged their lives around a car, or who've stopped commuting altogether. Schooling locally centres on Little Snoring Community Primary Academy, a small primary with around 70 pupils — the kind of school where your child is a name, not a number, though there's no secondary provision to speak of within the village itself. Housing here leans firmly detached and freehold, with a median sale price of £358,000, comfortably above both the national figure and North Norfolk's own average by close to a quarter — this is not the cheap end of the district, and the affordability grade of B+ reflects a place that's reasonably positioned rather than a bargain.