Property market
The five-year median is £80,000 from 1 recorded sale in NR21 7JQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Breckland is £273,851 in June 2026, up 2.7% year on year.
NR21 7JQ
Hermitage · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR21 7JQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR21
- Postcode sector
- NR21 7
- Latitude
- 52.782060
- Longitude
- 0.878879
- British National Grid easting
- 594,254
- British National Grid northing
- 324,380
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Hermitage · E05010248
- Parish or community
- E04006103
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00134352
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 002A · E01026442
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 002 · E02005504
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 NR21
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Orchards, Unit 5a And Unit 5b, Main Dereham Road, Colkirk, Fakenham, NR21 7JQ | 4 July 2024 | £80,000 |
| Orchard Park Unit, 2, Main Dereham Road, Colkirk, Fakenham, NR21 7JQ | 12 December 2018 | £23,000 |
| The Orchards, Unit 3, Main Dereham Road, Colkirk, Fakenham, NR21 7JQ | 2 October 2017 | £18,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.4 km
Brisley Church of England Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.2 km
Colkirk Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- NR21 7 residents
- 3,710
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in NR21 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
572 residents
372 residents
800 residents
1,081 residents
909 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NR21 7 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
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 7.7 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Dereham
- 7.7 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Dereham
- 7.9 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Walsingham
- 7.9 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Walsingham
- 11.6 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Wells-next-the-Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 002A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,069 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 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.
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
Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Brisley Church of England Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.