North Lopham
Village · 489 residents
45Fair
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: 37 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 34, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around North Lopham
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is North Lopham a good place to live?
North Lopham scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (83) and affordability (75).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and health (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for North Lopham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of North Lopham
Detached houses on generous plots, hedgerows rather than pavements, and a scatter of farm buildings converted into homes — North Lopham reads as proper rural Norfolk-Suffolk border country, not a commuter dormitory dressed up as a village. With a population in the dozens rather than thousands, this is a place where you'd recognise every car that passes.
There's no rail station here and none of the transport infrastructure that makes a place easy for commuting, which the connectivity and transport grades reflect honestly — this is a driving village, full stop. Schooling is a mixed picture worth knowing before you view anything: St Andrew's CofE VA Primary in Lopham itself is currently rated Requires Improvement, while Kenninghall Primary, a short drive out, holds a Good rating with a much larger roll. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — every sale in the local sample was freehold, and ten of sixteen were detached houses — which is the classic shape of a village where people buy once and stay; the median age of 51 backs that up. Prices sit meaningfully above the district, with the local median running about 47% higher than Breckland as a whole, so this isn't a cheap alternative to town life, it's a premium on space and quiet.
Green space is real but modest in formal terms — one named area of just two-thirds of a hectare — though the actual experience of living here is dominated by the open countryside around it rather than any mapped park. There's no restaurant or pub named in what's on record for the village itself, which fits a place this size; eating out means driving to a neighbouring town. Crime is low in absolute terms, just a handful of incidents over the year, and the safety grade sits at the top of the scale with a flat trend — nothing sliding in either direction. The one flag worth naming plainly: violence and sexual offences account for well over a third of the (small) crime count, which in a village this size usually reflects one or two isolated incidents rather than a pattern, but it's the sort of thing that shows up oddly in the data precisely because the numbers are so small.