Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Thetford Academy is the nearest published school at 512 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP24 1SX
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 1SX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP24
- Postcode sector
- IP24 1
- Latitude
- 52.431107
- Longitude
- 0.761525
- British National Grid easting
- 587,836
- British National Grid northing
- 285,043
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Forest · E05010245
- Parish or community
- E04013163
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134623
- 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
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 512 m
The Thetford Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 999 m
Admirals Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 999 m
Raleigh Infant Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 433
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 210
- Anti social behaviour 45
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Other theft 27
- Other crime 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP24 1 residents
- 10,018
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
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
GROVE SURGERY
GROVE LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2HY
ODS code D82002
1.9 km
SCHOOL LANE PMS PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, SCHOOL LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2AG
ODS code Y01690
2.2 km
SCHOOL LANE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, SCHOOL LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2AG
ODS code D82041
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Thetford Rail Station
RLY · Thetford
- 3.0 miles
RAF Camp
BCT · Barnham
- 3.0 miles
RAF Camp
BCT · Barnham
- 3.6 miles
Salmond Drive
BCT · Barnham
- 3.6 miles
Salmond Drive
BCT · Barnham
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
433 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 210 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.