Tilney St Lawrence
Village · 1,293 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 1 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: 37 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 96% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Tilney St Lawrence
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Tilney St Lawrence a good place to live?
Tilney St Lawrence scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and health (75).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Tilney St Lawrence in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Tilney St Lawrence
Tilney St Lawrence is the kind of place where the fields start where the gardens end. Detached and semi-detached houses on wide plots, a scatter of older farm cottages, and not much passing traffic beyond people who already know they're going there — this is a Fenland village in the proper sense, flat-horizoned and quiet, with the sense that most residents have chosen the isolation deliberately rather than landed in it by accident.
That trade-off shows up everywhere you look. House prices here sit below both the regional and national medians, and the typical sale — a freehold semi-detached, no new build in sight — runs cheaper than the wider King's Lynn and West Norfolk district itself, let alone the East of England average. What you don't get for that price is choice: the village's own primary, Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School, currently carries an Ofsted rating of Requires Improvement, and the neighbouring Terrington St John Primary hasn't been freshly inspected. Schooling is the soft spot in an otherwise solid picture, and anyone moving here with young children should go in with eyes open rather than assuming the usual village-primary charm.
Safety is where the village quietly over-performs — a top-tier grade against a national backdrop, with crime numbers so low they barely register, even though violence and sexual offences account for over half of the handful of incidents recorded. That's a pattern typical of small, thinly populated places: a handful of cases swings the percentages, but the lived reality is a village of just over a hundred people where very little happens. Green space is modest in scale — a few small pockets rather than parkland — and with no sample restaurants or rail stations showing up in the local picture, this isn't a place built around dining out or commuting by train; it's built around the house, the garden, and the drive to wherever you actually work. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of homes, which matters more than it used to now that remote work is how a lot of rural residents make the economics stack up.