NR16 2RE
Harling & Heathlands · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Post town
- Norwich
- Ward
- Harling & Heathlands
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR16 2RE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR16
- Postcode sector
- NR16 2
- Latitude
- 52.451140
- Longitude
- 0.843585
- British National Grid easting
- 593,326
- British National Grid northing
- 287,487
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Harling & Heathlands · E05010247
- Parish or community
- E04006097
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134338
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 014B · E01026440
- 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
Property
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Shadwell Crossing, Bridgham, Norwich, NR16 2RE | 18 December 2015 | £225,000 |
| 1, Shadwell Crossing, Bridgham, Norwich, NR16 2RE | 8 August 2003 | £102,000 |
| 1, Shadwell Crossing, Bridgham, Norwich, NR16 2RE | 3 March 2000 | £75,250 |
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- NR16 2 residents
- 6,973
2 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NR16 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- Next Generation Access
- 66.7%
- 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
- 2.8 miles
Harling Road Rail Station
RLY · Harling Road
- 4.4 miles
Country Park
BCT · Knettishall
- 5.0 miles
Post Box Cottages
BCT · Knettishall
- 5.0 miles
Post Box Cottages
BCT · Knettishall
- 5.5 miles
Grange Farm
BCT · Euston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 014B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,480 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
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.