Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Damara School is the nearest published school at 199 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP24 9BQ
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP24 9BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2025
- Terminated
- 1 April 2026
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP24
- Postcode sector
- IP24 9
- Latitude
- 52.413720
- Longitude
- 0.750512
- British National Grid easting
- 587,161
- British National Grid northing
- 283,081
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
- 199 m
The Damara School
Other independent special school
- 251 m
Norwich Road Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 385 m
Thetford Grammar School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,950
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 887
- Anti social behaviour 242
- Criminal damage and arson 218
- Public order 136
- Other theft 88
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
SCHOOL LANE PMS PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, SCHOOL LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2AG
ODS code Y01690
163 m
SCHOOL LANE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, SCHOOL LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2AG
ODS code D82041
163 m
GROVE SURGERY
GROVE LANE, THETFORD, IP24 2HY
ODS code D82002
205 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Thetford Rail Station
RLY · Thetford
- 1.7 miles
RAF Camp
BCT · Barnham
- 1.7 miles
RAF Camp
BCT · Barnham
- 2.4 miles
Salmond Drive
BCT · Barnham
- 2.4 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
1,950 published events cover 12 months, averaging 162.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 887 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.