South Pickenham
Village · 180 residents
41Fair
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: 22 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around South Pickenham
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is South Pickenham a good place to live?
South Pickenham scores 41/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for South Pickenham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of South Pickenham
South Pickenham announces itself as farmhouses and paddocks rather than a high street — detached homes on generous plots, a scatter of roofs rather than a run of shops, the kind of place where you notice a car passing because it's unusual, not because there's traffic to speak of. With a population under 150 and a density a fraction of the regional average, this is settled countryside, not a commuter dormitory dressed up as one.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from the road: a median age pushing 54 says this is a village of people who've already done the school-run years, not a magnet for buyers with toddlers. What schooling exists locally is thin — Gooderstone Church of England Primary Academy is the one sample on the books, a small academy of around 50 pupils, without a published Ofsted rating to lean on. If you have young children, you'd want to look at options beyond the village boundary rather than assume the local school does the job. Housing here means detached, freehold, and nothing else — every recorded sale in the area was a freehold house, five of the nine detached, and there's no new-build to speak of. A median sale price around £362,500 sits comfortably above the Breckland average by around 40%, which tells you this pocket of the district trades at a premium even though the wider area (income decile 4, deprivation decile 3) isn't especially wealthy — you're paying for space and setting, not for the local economy.