Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Frettenham Primary School is the nearest published school at 159 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR12 7LJ
Buxton · Broadland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Buxton
- Local authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham
- Postcode district
- NR12
- Postcode sector
- NR12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR12 7LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR12
- Postcode sector
- NR12 7
- Latitude
- 52.708558
- Longitude
- 1.323362
- British National Grid easting
- 624,600
- British National Grid northing
- 317,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Broadland · E07000144
- Electoral ward
- Buxton · E05005762
- Parish or community
- E04006220
- Westminster constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham · E14001136
- Output area
- E00134737
- Lower layer super output area
- Broadland 003B · E01026515
- Middle layer super output area
- Broadland 003 · E02005522
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
- 8
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 159 m
Frettenham Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Woodland View Junior School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Spixworth Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 35
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR12 7 residents
- 3,581
Age bands in NR12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.1%
533 residents
312 residents
715 residents
1,068 residents
1,029 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
COLTISHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 ST. JOHNS CLOSE, COLTISHALL, NORWICH, NR12 7HA
ODS code D82062
3.7 km
OLD CATTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
55 LODGE LANE, OLD CATTON, NORWICH, NR6 7HQ
ODS code D82013
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 3.3 miles
Norwich International Airport
GAT · Norwich International Airport
- 3.6 miles
Hoveton & Wroxham Rail Station
RLY · Hoveton
- 3.6 miles
Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway)
MET · Hoveton
- 3.6 miles
Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway)
PLT · Hoveton
- 3.7 miles
Salhouse Rail Station
RLY · Salhouse
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Broadland 003B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,372 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
35 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.