Which Norfolk town should you move to?
Six questions on budget, schools, the coast, trains and how quiet you want it, and the tool returns three to five of the 46 Norfolk towns and villages we cover, each linked to its guide.
This site covers 46 Norfolk towns and villages. Answer six questions and you get three to five places that fit, each with the reason it is there, what doesn’t fit, and a link to its full guide. You don’t need to give an email to see the answer.
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If one answer decides it
Price first
The lowest median sold prices on the coast are in Great Yarmouth, at £140,000 in the 12 months to June 2026, and Gorleston, at £190,000. Three in four Great Yarmouth sales were terraced houses. Caister-on-Sea, just north of Great Yarmouth, costs more: its median was £247,500, and half its sales were detached houses. Inland, Downham Market has a median of £260,000 and direct trains to London King’s Cross.
Keeping a London job
Four places in the tool have direct trains to London. From Diss the fastest train to Liverpool Street takes 1 hour 22 minutes and most take 1 hour 30 to 1 hour 38. The fastest Norwich train takes 1 hour 39 minutes and most about 1 hour 50. Downham Market is 1 hour 31 minutes from King’s Cross on the fastest train, and King’s Lynn, further up the line, 1 hour 47 minutes. From anywhere else in the tool you change trains or drive to one of these stations first.
The north coast
In ascending order of price: Holt had a median of £335,000 in the 12 months to June 2026 and Wells-next-the-Sea £415,000. Burnham Market sells too few houses for a one-year figure; its 65 sales over three years had a median of £715,000. Reepham, inland, has a market square, a Wednesday country market and a median of £300,000.
How this tool works
It uses the same figures as our town guides, so the guide you click through to says the same thing. Prices are HM Land Registry medians for the 12 months to June 2026, except in Burnham Market, which sells too few houses for a one-year figure. Populations come from the 2021 Census, and distances to the coast and to Norwich are road miles. Train times are typical weekday daytime journeys on the November 2026 timetable, from the town’s own station or the nearest one, with the drive to it where our guide gives one; the fastest train of the day is often quicker, and each guide gives it.
Budget is the one firm rule. A place whose typical price is more than a tenth over your figure is left out; one just over stays in, with a line saying so, because a median is only the middle sale and cheaper houses sell in every town. Everything else is weighed rather than ruled out, so when nothing fits every answer you still get the closest places and a plain line under each saying what doesn’t fit.
“A secondary school in the town” means a state secondary inside it, not how good it is: each guide names its schools and links to their inspection reports. There’s no overall score and no crime ranking; the safest places guide gives rates per 1,000 people and explains why small places swing. We don’t hold rents for every town, so for renters the shortlist uses typical sale prices as a guide to how dear a place is, and the renting guide has the rent figures we do have.
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