Mulbarton
Village · 2,913 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 23 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 68% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Mulbarton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Mulbarton a good place to live?
Mulbarton scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (95) and environment (90).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Mulbarton in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Mulbarton
Mulbarton reads as detached houses on generous plots, hedges rather than fences, and driveways with two cars rather than one — the kind of village where the housing stock does most of the talking before you've even parked. Nineteen of the thirty-eight recent sales were detached homes, sold freehold almost without exception, and that pattern alone tells you what kind of buyer this street attracts: settled, likely a family or two working from the study upstairs, not chasing a quick flip.
There's no rail station in the picture here, and the transport grade sits noticeably lower than everything else about the place — a C against a run of As and A+s — so this is a driving village, not a commuting one in the conventional sense, whatever you might assume from its Norfolk setting. Schooling is anchored by Mulbarton Primary School, rated Good and taking over four hundred pupils, which for a village of well under a thousand people is essentially the centre of family life. A median age of 44 fits that picture too: this is a place people move to and stay, not one that turns over quickly with young renters — the sales turnover rate is barely above one and a half per cent a year.
On money, Mulbarton sits near the top of the national scale for both income and deprivation deciles — decile 9 on both — and the numbers behind that are unambiguous rather than borderline. House prices run about 11% above the South Norfolk district average and comfortably above the regional median too, with detached homes changing hands around £400,000. Rent, interestingly, undercuts both the regional and national medians, which suggests a small, thin rental market rather than a cheap one. Council tax band D counts here run high relative to the housing type, which tracks with the detached, freehold, settled character rest of the data. Safety is the area's clearest strength: total recorded crime over the year sits in the mid-teens, dominated by the sort of violence-and-sexual-offences category that skews heavily from a small number of incidents in a small population, with anti-social behaviour a distant second. That's a graded A+ for safety and it lines up with the lived pattern, not against it.