Thorpe St Andrew
Suburb · 10,044 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 47 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 53% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Food & drink scores 24, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Thorpe St Andrew
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Is Thorpe St Andrew a good place to live?
Thorpe St Andrew scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and environment (80).
It scores lowest on food & drink (24) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Thorpe St Andrew in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Thorpe St Andrew
Thorpe St Andrew reads as a settled, semi-detached and detached kind of place: broad streets, gardens, cars on driveways rather than kerbs, and a population whose median age sits close to 48 — a good decade older than the national norm. This isn't a suburb geared towards nightlife or students; it's one where people arrive, plant themselves, and stay.
The housing stock backs that up. Sales here skew heavily towards detached and semi-detached freehold homes — the sort of For Sale board that says "family upsizer" or "long-term owner" rather than "first flat". At a median of around £307,000, prices sit a little above the national figure but essentially in line with the surrounding Broadland district, and detached homes here actually undercut the national detached price by a fair margin, which suggests you get more house for the money than the England-wide picture implies. Schools follow the same steady, unspectacular pattern: Hillside Avenue Primary is rated Good, Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form takes pupils through to eighteen, and the area's overall school grade lands solidly mid-table — not a place chasing outstanding badges, but not a gamble either. Transport is the one area that pulls the picture down a notch; the connectivity grade is respectable but the transport grade itself is middling, so this reads more as a driving suburb than a rail-commuter one.