PE31 6GU

Dersingham · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Dersingham
Local authority: King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency: North West Norfolk
Postcode district: PE31
Postcode sector: PE31 6

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
PE31 6HP	15 m
PE31 6GY	36 m
PE31 6HH	75 m
PE31 6HR	86 m
PE31 6JE	89 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PE31 6GU
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 July 2021
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PE
Postcode district: PE31
Postcode sector: PE31 6
Latitude: 52.845542
Longitude: 0.503565
British National Grid easting: 568,701
British National Grid northing: 330,493

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: East of England · E12000006
Local authority district: King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
Electoral ward: Dersingham · E05012327
Parish or community: E04006302
Westminster constituency: North West Norfolk · E14001405
Output area: E00135457
Lower layer super output area: King's Lynn and West Norfolk 004B · E01026654
Middle layer super output area: King's Lynn and West Norfolk 004 · E02005554

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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 4
Primary: 4
Secondary: 0

Dersingham Primary School

Voluntary aided school
1.4 km
Ingoldisthorpe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

Voluntary aided school
2.2 km
Sandringham and West Newton Church of England Primary Academy

Academy converter
2.9 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 114
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 55
Anti social behaviour 18
Criminal damage and arson 13
Public order 8
Other crime 6

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
PE31 6 residents: 7,959

Age bands in PE31 6

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 12%
Age 15 to 24: 7.2%
Age 25 to 44: 15%
Age 45 to 64: 27.2%
Age 65 and over: 38.6%

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.

Nearby transport

Kings Lynn Rail Station

RLY · Kings Lynn
7.6 miles
King's Lynn Ferry Landing

FER · Kings Lynn
7.8 miles
King's Lynn Ferry Landing

FBT · Kings Lynn
7.8 miles
West Lynn Ferry Landing

FBT · West Lynn
7.8 miles
West Lynn Ferry Landing

FER · West Lynn
7.8 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 004B, 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

3 of 10

Overall England rank

8,357 of 33,755

Income: 4 of 10
Employment: 3 of 10
Education and skills: 2 of 10
Health and disability: 2 of 10
Crime: 9 of 10
Housing and services: 2 of 10
Living environment: 7 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: 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

Schools

4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Dersingham Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

114 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 55 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.