Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fakenham Academy is the nearest published school at 892 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR21 9RW
Lancaster North · North Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lancaster North
- 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 9RW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR21
- Postcode sector
- NR21 9
- Latitude
- 52.848729
- Longitude
- 0.843868
- British National Grid easting
- 591,600
- British National Grid northing
- 331,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Norfolk · E07000147
- Electoral ward
- Lancaster North · E05011845
- Parish or community
- E04006412
- Westminster constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham · E14001136
- Output area
- E00135977
- Lower layer super output area
- North Norfolk 011B · E01026746
- Middle layer super output area
- North Norfolk 011 · E02005580
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
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 892 m
Fakenham Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Duke of Lancaster School
Free schools special
- 1.5 km
Sculthorpe Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 110
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 66
- Other theft 11
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Public order 7
- Criminal damage and arson 6
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
FAKENHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
MEDITRINA HOUSE, TRINITY ROAD, FAKENHAM, NR21 8SY
ODS code D82054
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 3.5 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Walsingham
- 3.5 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Walsingham
- 7.0 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 7.0 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 12.1 miles
Holt (North Norfolk Railway)
MET · Holt
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Norfolk 011B, 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
24,043 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
110 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 66 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.