Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Forest Academy is the nearest published school at 889 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP27 0PN
Forest · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Forest
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- IP27
- Postcode sector
- IP27 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP27 0PN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP27
- Postcode sector
- IP27 0
- Latitude
- 52.454533
- Longitude
- 0.624094
- British National Grid easting
- 578,400
- British National Grid northing
- 287,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Forest · E05010245
- Parish or community
- E04006190
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134626
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 012D · E01026493
- 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 IP27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 889 m
Forest Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Glade Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Weeting Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 480
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 228
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Public order 39
- Other theft 34
- Anti social behaviour 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP27 0 residents
- 11,333
Age bands in IP27 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
1,752 residents
1,046 residents
2,771 residents
2,940 residents
2,806 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BRANDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
ELBOURNE SURGERY, 31 HIGH STREET, BRANDON, IP27 0AQ
ODS code Y00774
673 m
FOREST SURGERY
BURY ROAD, BRANDON, IP27 0BU
ODS code D83062
956 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Brandon
- 0.0 miles
Entrance
RSE · Brandon
- 0.0 miles
Brandon Rail Station
RLY · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Entrance
RSE · Brandon
- 0.2 miles
Riverside Way
BCT · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 012D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,164 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
480 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 228 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.