Property market
The five-year median is £165,000 from 1 recorded sale in IP26 5AQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Breckland is £273,851 in June 2026, up 2.7% year on year.
IP26 5AQ
Bedingfeld · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Thetford
- Ward
- Bedingfeld
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP26 5AQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 5
- Latitude
- 52.558274
- Longitude
- 0.608105
- British National Grid easting
- 576,897
- British National Grid northing
- 298,797
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Bedingfeld · E05010239
- Parish or community
- E04006111
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134372
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 012B · E01026444
- 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 IP26
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Keepers's Cottage, Foulden, Thetford, IP26 5AQ | 3 September 2025 | £165,000 |
| Pinfold Cottage, Foulden, Thetford, IP26 5AQ | 25 July 2006 | £164,000 |
| Pinfold Cottages, 1, Foulden, Thetford, IP26 5AQ | 24 March 2004 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.4 km
The Norman Church of England Primary School, Northwold
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- 2.9 km
Sheridan House School
Other independent special school
- 3.4 km
Gooderstone Church of England Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- IP26 5 residents
- 3,577
2 female, 4 male
Age bands in IP26 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
501 residents
262 residents
650 residents
1,091 residents
932 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP26 5 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+
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 7.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Brandon
- 7.2 miles
Brandon Rail Station
RLY · Brandon
- 7.2 miles
Entrance
RSE · Brandon
- 7.3 miles
Entrance
RSE · Brandon
- 7.4 miles
Riverside Way
BCT · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 012B, 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
10,061 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 0
- 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Norman Church of England Primary School, Northwold is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.