Snettisham
Village · 2,599 residents
60Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 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: 25 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 27% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Snettisham a good place to live?
Snettisham scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (92).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Snettisham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Snettisham
Detached brick houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedges kept neat rather than sculpted — this is the look of Snettisham, and it tells you most of what you need to know before you've read a single figure. It's a village that skews older, quieter, and settled rather than transient, the kind of place where the same faces turn up at the same shop counters.
The numbers back up the impression. The median age here is 57, well above the national figure of 40, and that shapes everything from the pace of the high street to the type of housing on offer. Detached homes dominate the property market — seventeen of the last 26 sales — nearly all freehold, which is the classic signature of a village where people buy once and stay. At a median of just over £330,000, prices sit above the King's Lynn and West Norfolk average by around a quarter, though still shy of the wider regional median — you're paying a premium for the village itself, not for proximity to a city. The one sour note for anyone needing to get to work elsewhere is transport: there's no rail station in the picture here, and the transport grade is the weak link in an otherwise strong set of scores — worth weighing seriously if you're not already retired or working locally.
Schooling is thin but not absent: Snettisham Primary School serves the youngest children, a small academy of around 80 pupils, though there's only the one school in the village, so older children will be travelling out. That fits the demographic pattern — this reads as a place for established households and later-life movers more than young families chasing school catchments. Safety is where Snettisham quietly excels: the overall grade sits well above the national average, safety itself rates at the top end, and the trend is improving, not just stable. Look closer at the crime breakdown and violence and sexual offences make up the bulk of a modest 31 incidents over the year — a category that dominates the *share* more than the raw count, which is low in absolute terms for a village of 1,100 people.