Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bacton Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR12 0AG
Bacton · North Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bacton
- Local authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR12
- Postcode sector
- NR12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR12 0AG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2018
- Terminated
- 1 July 2024
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR12
- Postcode sector
- NR12 0
- Latitude
- 52.835392
- Longitude
- 1.473520
- British National Grid easting
- 634,059
- British National Grid northing
- 332,081
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Norfolk · E07000147
- Electoral ward
- Bacton · E05011834
- Parish or community
- E04006501
- Westminster constituency
- North Norfolk · E14001396
- Output area
- E00135945
- Lower layer super output area
- North Norfolk 012A · E01026740
- Middle layer super output area
- North Norfolk 012 · E02005581
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 NR12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Bacton Primary School
Community school
- 3.7 km
East Ruston Infant School & Nursery
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- 4.1 km
Happisburgh Church of England Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 47
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Other theft 3
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR12 0 residents
- 4,592
Age bands in NR12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 35.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.6%
406 residents
281 residents
531 residents
1,497 residents
1,498 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
- 3.9 miles
North Walsham Rail Station
RLY · North Walsham
- 5.0 miles
Worstead Rail Station
RLY · Worstead
- 5.6 miles
Gunton Rail Station
RLY · Southrepps
- 8.6 miles
Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway)
PLT · Hoveton
- 8.7 miles
Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway)
MET · Hoveton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Norfolk 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,965 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
- 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
Recorded crime
47 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.