South Normanton
Village · 11,669 residents
61Good
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
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 76 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 71% of the area
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around South Normanton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is South Normanton a good place to live?
South Normanton scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (76) and safety (71).
It scores lowest on health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for South Normanton in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of South Normanton
South Normanton reads as a working village rather than a commuter dormitory: pebble-dashed semis, a scatter of detached homes on the newer edges, and terraces that still sell for prices that would barely cover a deposit further south. This is Derbyshire's ex-coalfield country, and it shows in the housing stock more than in any sense of decline — the streets are lived-in, not tired.
The numbers back up that first impression of affordability. A median house price of £180,000 sits well under both the regional figure and the national average of near £281,000, and against its own council area of Bolsover it's tracking right in line with the local market rather than pulling away from it. Semi-detached freeholds dominate the sales here — 48 of the 137 recent sales, against 46 detached and 40 terraced — so a For Sale board on a typical street is almost always advertising outright ownership of an ordinary family house, not a leasehold flat or a new-build show home; there's essentially no new-build activity here at all. Schooling is a mixed picture worth reading carefully: Frederick Gent School, the main secondary, is rated Good, and John King Infant Academy carries an Outstanding badge, but the progress-8 score attached to Frederick Gent sits below zero, meaning pupils there have tended to make less academic progress than the national cohort — a detail that matters more to some families than the Ofsted grade alone would suggest.