Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Barford Primary School is the nearest published school at 825 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR9 4BJ
Wicklewood · South Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Norwich
- Ward
- Wicklewood
- Local authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR9
- Postcode sector
- NR9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR9 4BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR9
- Postcode sector
- NR9 4
- Latitude
- 52.630209
- Longitude
- 1.131833
- British National Grid easting
- 612,044
- British National Grid northing
- 308,208
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Norfolk · E07000149
- Electoral ward
- Wicklewood · E05011891
- Parish or community
- E04006512
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00136797
- Lower layer super output area
- South Norfolk 002E · E01026896
- Middle layer super output area
- South Norfolk 002 · E02005598
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 NR9
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Riverside Cottage, Chapel Street, Barford, Norwich, NR9 4BJ | 25 March 1999 | £138,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 825 m
Barford Primary School
Community school
- 2.9 km
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy, Easton
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
The Bridge Easton
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Bicycle theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- NR9 4 residents
- 5,453
9 female, 8 male
Age bands in NR9 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
851 residents
498 residents
1,031 residents
1,670 residents
1,592 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NR9 4 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+
- 42.9%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 4.3 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Wymondham
- 4.3 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Wymondham
- 4.5 miles
Wymondham Rail Station
RLY · Wymondham
- 6.7 miles
Norwich International Airport
GAT · Norwich International Airport
- 6.9 miles
Spooner Row Rail Station
RLY · Spooner Row
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Norfolk 002E, 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
20,764 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.