Ormesby St Michael
Village · 213 residents
46Fair
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
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Flood risk: 26% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ormesby St Michael
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ormesby St Michael a good place to live?
Ormesby St Michael scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for 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 Ormesby St Michael in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ormesby St Michael
Ormesby St Michael reads as low-rise, quiet, and thinly populated even by village standards — semi-detached and terraced houses along modest streets, nothing that feels built for passing trade. This is a place people settle into rather than discover, and the numbers behind the scene back that up: a population of 90 and a density nowhere close to the regional average tells you this is genuinely sparse, not just quiet-sounding.
Houses here sell for around £203,750, well under both the Great Yarmouth district median and the national figure, and freehold ownership runs through every single recorded sale — no leasehold complications, no new-build estates skewing the picture. The property mix leans semi-detached and terraced in even measure, with a couple of detached houses in the sample too, so a For Sale board here most often means an older, modest, fully-owned home rather than anything shiny. Against Great Yarmouth itself prices sit only marginally higher, which tells you this village isn't trading on scarcity value the way some commuter-belt places do. Ormesby Village Infant School is the named school in the area, a small community primary serving under a hundred pupils — the kind of place where your child would likely know every other family in their year, though no Ofsted rating is on record to confirm how it performs. Transport is the soft spot: the connectivity grade sits mid-pack while transport itself scores lower, consistent with a village that assumes you'll drive rather than rely on rail.