Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Taverham High School is the nearest published school at 2.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR9 5TX
Great Witchingham · Broadland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Great Witchingham
- Local authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham
- Postcode district
- NR9
- Postcode sector
- NR9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR9 5TX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR9
- Postcode sector
- NR9 5
- Latitude
- 52.715220
- Longitude
- 1.160728
- British National Grid easting
- 613,584
- British National Grid northing
- 317,746
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Broadland · E07000144
- Electoral ward
- Great Witchingham · E05005767
- Parish or community
- E04006199
- Westminster constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham · E14001136
- Output area
- E00134778
- Lower layer super output area
- Broadland 002D · E01026525
- Middle layer super output area
- Broadland 002 · E02005521
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.7 km
Taverham High School
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- 3.7 km
Great Witchingham Church of England Primary Academy
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- 4.2 km
Langley Preparatory School At Taverham Hall
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Public order 3
- Possession of weapons 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR9 5 residents
- 5,035
Age bands in NR9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
794 residents
475 residents
990 residents
1,578 residents
1,345 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
MARRIOTT'S MEDICAL PRACTICES
THE TAVERHAM P'SHIP/SURG, SANDY LANE, TAVERHAM, NORWICH, NR8 6JR
ODS code D82024
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 5.9 miles
Norwich International Airport
GAT · Norwich International Airport
- 6.6 miles
Aylsham (Bure Valley Railway)
MET · Aylsham
- 6.6 miles
Aylsham (Bure Valley Railway)
PLT · Aylsham
- 8.6 miles
Norwich Rail Station
RLY · Norwich
- 9.3 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Dereham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Broadland 002D, 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
12,839 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.