Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Wymondham College is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR18 9WB
Wicklewood · South Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wicklewood
- Local authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR18
- Postcode sector
- NR18 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR18 9WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 June 2004
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR18
- Postcode sector
- NR18 9
- Latitude
- 52.535939
- Longitude
- 1.054840
- British National Grid easting
- 607,279
- British National Grid northing
- 297,502
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Norfolk · E07000149
- Electoral ward
- Wicklewood · E05011891
- Parish or community
- E04006574
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00187963
- Lower layer super output area
- South Norfolk 004D · E01026948
- Middle layer super output area
- South Norfolk 004 · E02005600
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 NR18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.0 km
Wymondham College
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- 1.0 km
Wymondham College Prep School
Free schools
- 2.0 km
Spooner Row Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 27
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 19
- Public order 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Bicycle theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR18 9 residents
- 6,885
Age bands in NR18 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,400 residents
961 residents
1,546 residents
1,778 residents
1,118 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
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
Spooner Row Rail Station
RLY · Spooner Row
- 2.0 miles
Attleborough Rail Station
RLY · Attleborough
- 3.1 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Wymondham
- 3.1 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Wymondham
- 3.4 miles
Wymondham Rail Station
RLY · Wymondham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Norfolk 004D, 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
26,475 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
27 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 19 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.