Scratby sits along the Norfolk coast road as a scatter of bungalows, caravan parks and newer estates rather than anything you'd call a high street — this is a place people drive through on the way to the beach, not a place built around a centre. There's not much here in the way of hard local detail to hang a commuting or schooling picture on, which itself tells you something: Scratby is small enough, and quiet enough, that it doesn't generate its own statistics separate from Great Yarmouth, the district it belongs to. What we can say with confidence is on price. Nationally the typical home sits around £281,000, and regionally in the East of England that rises to £330,000 — but Great Yarmouth district, Scratby's parent area, runs notably cheaper at around £200,000. That gap matters: a coastal Norfolk address here buys you meaningfully more house than the same money would in most of the region, which is a large part of why retirees and second-home buyers have long been drawn to this stretch of coast. Day-to-day life follows the coastline rather than a calendar — the beach itself is the area's real amenity, and the appeal of Scratby has always been the sea, the sky, and the space, rather than a cluster of restaurants or a big shopping run. Anyone moving here should expect to travel into Great Yarmouth or further afield for the fuller range of shops, GP choice, and secondary schools; Scratby itself functions as a residential and holiday village first. This suits people who want a cheap-by-regional-standards coastal foothold — retirees, holiday-letting owners, or those happy to commute into Great Yarmouth for work and services — more than anyone wanting daily life, schooling, and transport sorted on their own doorstep. The trade-off is straightforward: lower prices and coastal quiet, against having to leave the village for almost everything else.