Property market
The five-year median is £240,000 from 4 recorded sales in NR5 9LB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Norwich is £230,706 in June 2026, up 3.6% year on year.
NR5 9LB
Bowthorpe · Norwich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR5 9LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1983
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR5
- Postcode sector
- NR5 9
- Latitude
- 52.640114
- Longitude
- 1.215254
- British National Grid easting
- 617,639
- British National Grid northing
- 309,558
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Norwich · E07000148
- Electoral ward
- Bowthorpe · E05012901
- Parish or community
- E43000115
- Westminster constituency
- Norwich South · E14001409
- Output area
- E00136255
- Lower layer super output area
- Norwich 005D · E01026794
- Middle layer super output area
- Norwich 005 · E02005588
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 NR5
Property
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Courtenay Close, Norwich, NR5 9LB | 18 October 2024 | £240,000 |
| 17, Courtenay Close, Norwich, NR5 9LB | 21 June 2024 | £235,000 |
| 12, Courtenay Close, Norwich, NR5 9LB | 22 August 2023 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 4
- 99 m
St Michael's VA Junior School
Voluntary aided school
- 226 m
Chapel Break Infant School
Community school
- 779 m
Costessey Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,435
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 618
- Anti social behaviour 154
- Criminal damage and arson 145
- Shoplifting 139
- Public order 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 57
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- NR5 9 residents
- 8,656
23 female, 34 male
Age bands in NR5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
1,622 residents
1,511 residents
2,485 residents
1,808 residents
1,287 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NR5 9 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
13
within 5 km
TRINITY & BOWTHORPE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BOWTHORPE MAIN CENTRE, WENDENE, NORWICH, NR5 9HA
ODS code D82017
351 m
BEECHCROFT AND OLD PALACE
23 BEECHCROFT, NEW COSTESSEY, NORWICH, NR5 0RS
ODS code Y03595
650 m
ROUNDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
25 DOCTOR TORRENS WAY, COSTESSEY, NORWICH, NR5 0GB
ODS code D82023
1.2 km
WENSUM VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
WEST EARLHAM HEALTH CENTRE, WEST EARLHAM, NORWICH, NR5 8AD
ODS code D82040
2.0 km
UEA MEDICAL CENTRE
EARLHAM ROAD, NORWICH, NR4 7TJ
ODS code D82088
2.6 km
HELLESDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
343 REEPHAM ROAD, HELLESDON, NORWICH, NR6 5QJ
ODS code D82018
4.2 km
HUMBLEYARD PRACTICE
THE CRINGLEFORD SURGERY, CANTLEY LANE, CRINGLEFORD, NORWICH, NR4 6TA
ODS code D82064
4.4 km
DRAYTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 MANOR FARM CLOSE, DRAYTON, NORWICH, NR8 6EE
ODS code D82029
4.4 km
WEST POTTERGATE MED PRAC
THE HEALTH CENTRE, EARLHAM RD, NORWICH, NR2 4BX
ODS code D82106
4.5 km
WOODCOCK RD SURGERY
29 WOODCOCK ROAD, NORWICH, NR3 3UA
ODS code D82096
4.7 km
MARRIOTT'S MEDICAL PRACTICES
THE TAVERHAM P'SHIP/SURG, SANDY LANE, TAVERHAM, NORWICH, NR8 6JR
ODS code D82024
4.8 km
PROSPECT MEDICAL PRACTICE
95 AYLSHAM ROAD, NORWICH, NR3 2HW
ODS code D82087
4.8 km
VULNERABLE ADULTS SERVICE
100-102 WESTWICK STREET, NORWICH, NR2 4SZ
ODS code Y05472
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 3.3 miles
Norwich International Airport
GAT · Norwich International Airport
- 4.0 miles
Norwich Rail Station
RLY · Norwich
- 6.6 miles
Wymondham Rail Station
RLY · Wymondham
- 6.7 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Wymondham
- 6.7 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Wymondham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Norwich 005D, 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
13,266 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
56 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Michael's VA Junior School is the nearest published school at 99 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,435 published events cover 12 months, averaging 119.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 618 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.