Toft Monks
Village · 361 residents
48Fair
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: 39 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 53% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Toft Monks
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Toft Monks a good place to live?
Toft Monks scores 48/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and health (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Toft Monks in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Toft Monks
Toft Monks is the kind of place where the houses sit apart from each other, detached and freehold, with fields doing the work that pavements do elsewhere. There's no high street to speak of, no parade of shops setting the tone — just under 220 people spread thinly across the land, at a density that would barely register as a hamlet in most of England. It reads as settled rather than transient, and the median age of 54 confirms it: this is a place people move to and stay, not a stopover.
Practically speaking, this is a one-school, one-station village, and both of those facts matter more than they would in a town. Glebeland Community Primary School is small — eighteen pupils — which suits families who want their children known by name rather than lost in a year group, though it also means no real choice of primary if it isn't the right fit. Haddiscoe Rail Station gives you a line out, which matters because there's little to walk to locally; a car is not optional here, it's the default. Housing is almost entirely detached freehold stock, and at a median of £337,500 it sits above both the national figure and the South Norfolk average by a noticeable margin — you're paying for space and quiet, not for proximity to anything.
Green space is limited to a single plot of under a hectare, so this isn't a village built around a park or a common; the "outdoors" here is the surrounding countryside itself, not a mapped amenity, and you fill a weekend by driving to it rather than walking into it. There's no named restaurant or pub in the picture, which tracks with a population this small — eating out means going elsewhere. What stands out instead is safety: against a backdrop of respectable but unremarkable scores for schools, connectivity and transport, the safety grade is exceptional, comfortably above the national average, with only seven recorded incidents in the past year and the trend holding flat rather than drifting either way. Violence and anti-social behaviour top the local breakdown, but the raw counts are so low that a couple of incidents swing the percentages — worth reading as noise, not pattern.