Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cromer Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR27 9AG
Cromer Town · North Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cromer Town
- Local authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR27
- Postcode sector
- NR27 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR27 9AG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR27
- Postcode sector
- NR27 9
- Latitude
- 52.931510
- Longitude
- 1.294289
- British National Grid easting
- 621,500
- British National Grid northing
- 342,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Norfolk · E07000147
- Electoral ward
- Cromer Town · E05011838
- Parish or community
- E04006405
- Westminster constituency
- North Norfolk · E14001396
- Output area
- E00135908
- Lower layer super output area
- North Norfolk 003A · E01026734
- Middle layer super output area
- North Norfolk 003 · E02005572
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 NR27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
Cromer Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Cromer Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Suffield Park Infant and Nursery School, Cromer
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 527
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 185
- Shoplifting 90
- Anti social behaviour 72
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR27 9 residents
- 5,791
Age bands in NR27 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 8.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.9%
483 residents
402 residents
881 residents
1,642 residents
2,169 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
CROMER GROUP PRACTICE
MILL ROAD, CROMER, NR27 0BG
ODS code D82004
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cromer Rail Station
RLY · Cromer
- 1.0 miles
Roughton Road Rail Station
RLY · Cromer
- 2.1 miles
West Runton Rail Station
RLY · West Runton
- 3.6 miles
Sheringham Rail Station
RLY · Sheringham
- 3.7 miles
Sheringham (North Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Sheringham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Norfolk 003A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,479 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
527 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 185 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.