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IP26 5BP
Ashill · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashill
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP26 5BP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 5
- Latitude
- 52.569855
- Longitude
- 0.694435
- British National Grid easting
- 582,700
- British National Grid northing
- 300,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Ashill · E05010238
- Parish or community
- E04006126
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134251
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 012A · E01026424
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Vehicle crime 3
- Other theft 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP26 5 residents
- 3,577
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
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.
Nearby transport
- 7.9 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 7.9 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 7.9 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 8.0 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 8.7 miles
The Paddocks
BCT · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 012A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,147 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.