Schools
Published establishments
0 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools.
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IP26 5BS
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 5BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP26
- Postcode sector
- IP26 5
- Latitude
- 52.579138
- Longitude
- 0.701839
- British National Grid easting
- 583,163
- British National Grid northing
- 301,351
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
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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
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- IP26 5 residents
- 3,577
3 female, 2 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 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP26 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
How to read these estimates
The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS
outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between
tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.
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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a
named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not
publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality
reasons.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 8.6 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 8.6 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 8.6 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 8.7 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 9.4 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.
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
A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.
Recorded crime
Published police records
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 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.