Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kenninghall Primary School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR16 2EJ
Guiltcross · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Guiltcross
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR16 2EJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 2
- Latitude
- 52.432778
- Longitude
- 0.992494
- British National Grid easting
- 603,527
- British National Grid northing
- 285,854
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Guiltcross · E05010246
- Parish or community
- E04006134
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134634
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 014D · E01026494
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 014 · E02005516
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 0 m
Kenninghall Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.3 km
St Andrew's CofE VA Primary School, Lopham
Voluntary aided school
- 3.4 km
Aurora Eccles School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 2
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR16 2 residents
- 6,973
Age bands in NR16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
1,048 residents
609 residents
1,446 residents
2,014 residents
1,773 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
E HARLING & KENNINGHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, MARKET ST, EAST HARLING, NORWICH, NR16 2AD
ODS code D82042
4.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 2.8 miles
Eccles Road Rail Station
RLY · Eccles Road
- 4.9 miles
White Horse
BCT · Thelnetham
- 4.9 miles
White Horse
BCT · Thelnetham
- 5.0 miles
Village Sign
BCT · Redgrave
- 5.0 miles
Village Sign
BCT · Redgrave
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 014D, 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
14,695 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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
24 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.