Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fakenham Academy is the nearest published school at 429 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR21 9HT
Walsingham · North Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Walsingham
- Local authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham
- Postcode district
- NR21
- Postcode sector
- NR21 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR21 9HT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR21
- Postcode sector
- NR21 9
- Latitude
- 52.839154
- Longitude
- 0.838535
- British National Grid easting
- 591,283
- British National Grid northing
- 330,621
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Norfolk · E07000147
- Electoral ward
- Walsingham · E05011863
- Parish or community
- E04006466
- Westminster constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham · E14001136
- Output area
- E00136187
- Lower layer super output area
- North Norfolk 009B · E01026782
- Middle layer super output area
- North Norfolk 009 · E02005578
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 429 m
Fakenham Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 669 m
Duke of Lancaster School
Free schools special
- 1.2 km
Fakenham Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 497
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 214
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Shoplifting 49
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Public order 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR21 9 residents
- 4,087
Age bands in NR21 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.1%
556 residents
343 residents
855 residents
1,128 residents
1,184 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
FAKENHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
MEDITRINA HOUSE, TRINITY ROAD, FAKENHAM, NR21 8SY
ODS code D82054
2.0 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
- 4.2 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Walsingham
- 4.2 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Walsingham
- 7.7 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 7.7 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 12.0 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Dereham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Norfolk 009B, 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
11,781 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
497 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 214 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.