Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sheringham High School is the nearest published school at 369 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR26 8SZ
Sheringham South · North Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sheringham South
- Local authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR26
- Postcode sector
- NR26 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR26 8SZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR26
- Postcode sector
- NR26 8
- Latitude
- 52.939495
- Longitude
- 1.199624
- British National Grid easting
- 615,100
- British National Grid northing
- 342,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Norfolk · E07000147
- Electoral ward
- Sheringham South · E05011856
- Parish or community
- E04006468
- Westminster constituency
- North Norfolk · E14001396
- Output area
- E00136128
- Lower layer super output area
- North Norfolk 001C · E01026772
- Middle layer super output area
- North Norfolk 001 · E02005570
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 NR26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 369 m
Sheringham High School
Academy converter
- 460 m
Sheringham Community Primary School
Community school
- 544 m
Sheringham Woodfields School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 368
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 188
- Anti social behaviour 48
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Shoplifting 26
- Other theft 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR26 8 residents
- 8,193
Age bands in NR26 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 40.5%
871 residents
630 residents
1,134 residents
2,172 residents
3,272 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
SHERINGHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
CROMER ROAD, SHERINGHAM, NR26 8RT
ODS code D82005
1.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Sheringham (North Norfolk Railway)
MET · Sheringham
- 0.4 miles
Sheringham (North Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Sheringham
- 0.5 miles
Sheringham Rail Station
RLY · Sheringham
- 1.9 miles
West Runton Rail Station
RLY · West Runton
- 2.1 miles
Weybourne (North Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Weybourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Norfolk 001C, 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
26,736 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
368 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 188 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.