Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Watton Junior School is the nearest published school at 415 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP25 6WZ
Watton · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watton
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP25
- Postcode sector
- IP25 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP25 6WZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2024
- Terminated
- 1 May 2024
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP25
- Postcode sector
- IP25 6
- Latitude
- 52.571592
- Longitude
- 0.824039
- British National Grid easting
- 591,474
- British National Grid northing
- 300,829
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Watton · E05010263
- Parish or community
- E04006187
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00134615
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 009C · E01026488
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 009 · E02005511
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 IP25
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 415 m
Watton Junior School
Academy sponsor led
- 426 m
Watton Westfield Infant and Nursery School
Academy sponsor led
- 628 m
Wayland Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 397
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 208
- Anti social behaviour 47
- Public order 31
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Other theft 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP25 6 residents
- 14,310
Age bands in IP25 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
2,137 residents
1,370 residents
3,937 residents
3,495 residents
3,342 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
WATTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 GREGOR SHANKS WAY, WATTON, THETFORD, IP25 6FA
ODS code D82063
228 m
Nearby transport
- 8.9 miles
Harling Road Rail Station
RLY · Harling Road
- 9.1 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Dereham
- 9.1 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Dereham
- 9.3 miles
Eccles Road Rail Station
RLY · Eccles Road
- 10.3 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 009C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,951 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
397 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 208 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.