Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Thetford Academy is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP24 1LT
Forest · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Forest
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP24
- Postcode sector
- IP24 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP24 1LT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP24
- Postcode sector
- IP24 1
- Latitude
- 52.466412
- Longitude
- 0.744932
- British National Grid easting
- 586,559
- British National Grid northing
- 288,926
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Forest · E05010245
- Parish or community
- E04013162
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134624
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 012D · E01026493
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 012 · E02005514
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore IP24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 1
- 4.4 km
The Thetford Academy
Academy sponsor led
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- IP24 1 residents
- 10,018
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in IP24 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
1,842 residents
1,071 residents
2,627 residents
2,557 residents
1,755 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP24 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 3.2 miles
Thetford Lodge
BCT · Santon Downham
- 3.2 miles
Thetford Lodge
BCT · Santon Downham
- 3.2 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 3.2 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 3.3 miles
Thetford Rail Station
RLY · Thetford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 012D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,164 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.