Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. White House Farm is the nearest published school at 588 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR7 8SA
Sprowston East · Broadland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sprowston East
- Local authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Norwich North
- Postcode district
- NR7
- Postcode sector
- NR7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR7 8SA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2022
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR7
- Postcode sector
- NR7 8
- Latitude
- 52.655680
- Longitude
- 1.342302
- British National Grid easting
- 626,152
- British National Grid northing
- 311,680
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Broadland · E07000144
- Electoral ward
- Sprowston East · E05005778
- Parish or community
- E04006250
- Westminster constituency
- Norwich North · E14001408
- Output area
- E00184660
- Lower layer super output area
- Broadland 013B · E01026558
- Middle layer super output area
- Broadland 013 · E02005532
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 NR7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 588 m
White House Farm
Free schools
- 961 m
Sparhawk Infant School & Nursery
Community school
- 1.1 km
Falcon Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 816
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 372
- Anti social behaviour 114
- Criminal damage and arson 84
- Shoplifting 73
- Other theft 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- NR7 8 residents
- 13,653
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in NR7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
2,171 residents
1,165 residents
3,662 residents
3,402 residents
3,261 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NR7 8 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+
- 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
THORPEWOOD MEDICAL GROUP
140 WOODSIDE ROAD, NORWICH, NR7 9QL
ODS code D82048
1.5 km
EAST NORWICH MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
ST. WILLIAMS WAY, THORPE ST. ANDREW, NORWICH, NR7 0AJ
ODS code D82071
2.1 km
THE LIONWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
30A WELLESLEY AVENUE NORTH, NORWICH, NR1 4NU
ODS code D82073
3.0 km
OLD CATTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
55 LODGE LANE, OLD CATTON, NORWICH, NR6 7HQ
ODS code D82013
3.2 km
LAWSON ROAD SURGERY
LAWSON ROAD, NORWICH, NR3 4LE
ODS code D82076
3.2 km
MAGDALEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
LAWSON ROAD, NORWICH, NR3 4LF
ODS code D82012
3.2 km
CASTLE PARTNERSHIP
40 FISHERGATE, NORWICH, NR3 1SE
ODS code D82011
3.8 km
PROSPECT MEDICAL PRACTICE
95 AYLSHAM ROAD, NORWICH, NR3 2HW
ODS code D82087
4.0 km
WOODCOCK RD SURGERY
29 WOODCOCK ROAD, NORWICH, NR3 3UA
ODS code D82096
4.2 km
OAK STREET MEDICAL PRACT.
OAK STREET, NORWICH, NR3 3DL
ODS code D82047
4.3 km
NORWICH PRACTICES HEALTH CENTRE
ROUEN HOUSE, ROUEN ROAD, NORWICH, NR1 1RB
ODS code Y02751
4.4 km
VULNERABLE ADULTS SERVICE
100-102 WESTWICK STREET, NORWICH, NR2 4SZ
ODS code Y05472
4.4 km
WEST POTTERGATE MED PRAC
THE HEALTH CENTRE, EARLHAM RD, NORWICH, NR2 4BX
ODS code D82106
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 2.5 miles
Norwich Rail Station
RLY · Norwich
- 2.5 miles
Salhouse Rail Station
RLY · Salhouse
- 2.9 miles
Norwich International Airport
GAT · Norwich International Airport
- 3.9 miles
Brundall Gardens Rail Station
RLY · Brundall
- 4.8 miles
Brundall Rail Station
RLY · Brundall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Broadland 013B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,056 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
816 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 372 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.