Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Thetford Grammar School is the nearest published school at 148 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP24 3BL
Thetford Castle · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thetford Castle
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP24
- Postcode sector
- IP24 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP24 3BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2013
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP24
- Postcode sector
- IP24 3
- Latitude
- 52.414480
- Longitude
- 0.746441
- British National Grid easting
- 586,881
- British National Grid northing
- 283,155
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Thetford Castle · E05010260
- Parish or community
- E04013163
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134514
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 016A · E01026468
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 016 · E02005518
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
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 148 m
Thetford Grammar School
Other independent school
- 316 m
Norwich Road Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 419 m
The Damara School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,006
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 909
- Anti social behaviour 243
- Criminal damage and arson 217
- Public order 136
- Other theft 92
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP24 3 residents
- 8,670
Age bands in IP24 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
1,802 residents
1,047 residents
2,435 residents
2,244 residents
1,361 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
SCHOOL LANE PMS PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, SCHOOL LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2AG
ODS code Y01690
296 m
SCHOOL LANE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, SCHOOL LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2AG
ODS code D82041
296 m
GROVE SURGERY
GROVE LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2HY
ODS code D82002
361 m
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Thetford Rail Station
RLY · Thetford
- 1.7 miles
RAF Camp
BCT · Barnham
- 1.8 miles
RAF Camp
BCT · Barnham
- 2.5 miles
Salmond Drive
BCT · Barnham
- 2.5 miles
Salmond Drive
BCT · Barnham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 016A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,122 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,006 published events cover 12 months, averaging 167.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 909 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.