The Howdale
Suburb · 68 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 suburbs
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: 44 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
Around The Howdale
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is The Howdale a good place to live?
The Howdale scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for The Howdale in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of The Howdale
Drive through The Howdale and what strikes you first is the detached houses, set well apart on quiet roads, with the kind of hedging and gravel drives that signal people who've been here a while and intend to stay. It's a small place, barely a few dozen households by the look of it, and it carries itself that way — settled, unhurried, not performing for anyone.
The age profile tells you plenty here: a median in the mid-forties, well above the regional norm, which fits a spot where people arrive once children are past the toddler stage and don't move again for a long time. On schooling, Downham Market Academy and the Good-rated primaries scattered round the area — Hillcrest, Denver, Hilgay Riverside — give a solid, unspectacular option rather than a flagship one; nothing here is Outstanding, but nothing is struggling either. Transport is the honest weak point: the connectivity grade sits respectably but transport itself lands a C, and this reads as a place you drive from rather than commute out of by rail. Housing matches the streetscape exactly — detached homes, freehold almost without exception, barely any new build, which means what you're buying is an established house with history rather than a fresh-cut estate plot. At a median approaching the low £300,000s, that's noticeably pricier than the wider King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, by some margin, though still some way under what the same size of place would fetch nationally.