Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Southery Academy is the nearest published school at 2.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP26 4EP
Methwold · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Thetford
- Ward
- Methwold
- Local authority
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP26 4EP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 4
- Latitude
- 52.508656
- Longitude
- 0.450673
- British National Grid easting
- 566,414
- British National Grid northing
- 292,905
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
- Electoral ward
- Methwold · E05012340
- Parish or community
- E04006331
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00135434
- Lower layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 019C · E01026650
- Middle layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 019 · E02005569
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Augers Farm, Southery Road, Feltwell, Thetford, IP26 4EP | 26 October 2001 | £65,000 |
| Augers Farm, Southery Road, Feltwell, Thetford, IP26 4EP | 12 November 1999 | £40,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.7 km
Southery Academy
Academy sponsor led
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- IP26 4 residents
- 6,066
4 female, 7 male
Age bands in IP26 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,117 residents
667 residents
1,471 residents
1,639 residents
1,246 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP26 4 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
- 0%
- 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
- 5.5 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Lakenheath
- 5.5 miles
Entrance1
RSE · Lakenheath
- 5.5 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Lakenheath
- 5.5 miles
Lakenheath Rail Station
RLY · Lakenheath
- 5.5 miles
Entrance2
RSE · Lakenheath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 019C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,719 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 5
- 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.