Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Aurora Eccles School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR16 2FU
All Saints & Wayland · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- All Saints & Wayland
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR16 2FU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 2
- Latitude
- 52.470205
- Longitude
- 0.952224
- British National Grid easting
- 600,620
- British National Grid northing
- 289,903
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- All Saints & Wayland · E05010237
- Parish or community
- E04006170
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00134320
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 013B · E01026435
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 013 · E02005515
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
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.8 km
Aurora Eccles School
Other independent special school
- 1.8 km
Aurora White House School
Other independent special school
- 3.6 km
East Harling Primary School and Nursery
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 28
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Other theft 5
- Public order 3
- Other crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
E HARLING & KENNINGHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, MARKET ST, EAST HARLING, NORWICH, NR16 2AD
ODS code D82042
3.7 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
- 0.7 miles
Eccles Road Rail Station
RLY · Eccles Road
- 2.1 miles
Harling Road Rail Station
RLY · Harling Road
- 4.3 miles
Attleborough Rail Station
RLY · Attleborough
- 6.2 miles
Post Box Cottages
BCT · Knettishall
- 6.3 miles
Post Box Cottages
BCT · Knettishall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 013B, 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
14,840 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
28 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.