Property market
The five-year median is £535,000 from 6 recorded sales in NR16 1FN. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for South Norfolk is £312,124 in June 2026, up 2.0% year on year.
NR16 1FN
Forncett · South Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Norwich
- Ward
- Forncett
- Local authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR16 1FN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 1
- Latitude
- 52.501935
- Longitude
- 1.150454
- British National Grid easting
- 613,927
- British National Grid northing
- 294,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Norfolk · E07000149
- Electoral ward
- Forncett · E05011875
- Parish or community
- E04006545
- Westminster constituency
- South Norfolk · E14001489
- Output area
- E00187878
- Lower layer super output area
- South Norfolk 011C · E01026897
- Middle layer super output area
- South Norfolk 011 · E02005607
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 NR16
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Austhorpe Gardens, Forncett St Peter, Norwich, NR16 1FN | 16 July 2025 | £575,000 |
| 1, Austhorpe Gardens, Forncett St Peter, Norwich, NR16 1FN | 2 October 2023 | £510,000 |
| 2, Austhorpe Gardens, Forncett St Peter, Norwich, NR16 1FN | 26 September 2023 | £510,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.1 km
Tacolneston Church of England Primary Academy
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- 1.9 km
Bunwell Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Forncett St Peter Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 29
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Other theft 6
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR16 1 residents
- 5,764
Age bands in NR16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.1%
830 residents
513 residents
1,046 residents
1,847 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 3.5 miles
Spooner Row Rail Station
RLY · Spooner Row
- 4.6 miles
Wymondham Rail Station
RLY · Wymondham
- 5.1 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Wymondham
- 5.1 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Wymondham
- 5.5 miles
Attleborough Rail Station
RLY · Attleborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Norfolk 011C, 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
20,728 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Tacolneston Church of England Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
29 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.