Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Rosecroft Primary School is the nearest published school at 128 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR17 1ZS
Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR17
- Postcode sector
- NR17 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR17 1ZS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR17
- Postcode sector
- NR17 1
- Latitude
- 52.508711
- Longitude
- 0.999138
- British National Grid easting
- 603,628
- British National Grid northing
- 294,316
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe · E05010241
- Parish or community
- E04013160
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00188011
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 011F · E01035135
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 011 · E02005513
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 NR17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 128 m
Rosecroft Primary School
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- 1.8 km
Attleborough Academy
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- 1.9 km
Attleborough Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 223
- Anti social behaviour 60
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Public order 35
- Shoplifting 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR17 1 residents
- 8,967
Age bands in NR17 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
1,513 residents
846 residents
2,167 residents
2,499 residents
1,953 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 straight-line
ATTLEBOROUGH SURGERY
STATION ROAD, ATTLEBOROUGH, NR17 2AS
ODS code D82034
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Attleborough Rail Station
RLY · Attleborough
- 2.9 miles
Eccles Road Rail Station
RLY · Eccles Road
- 4.1 miles
Spooner Row Rail Station
RLY · Spooner Row
- 5.4 miles
Harling Road Rail Station
RLY · Harling Road
- 6.1 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Wymondham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 011F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,378 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 223 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.