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PE31 8BE
Brancaster · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- King's Lynn
- Ward
- Brancaster
- Local authority
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- PE31
- Postcode sector
- PE31 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE31 8BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE31
- Postcode sector
- PE31 8
- Latitude
- 52.960069
- Longitude
- 0.619995
- British National Grid easting
- 576,076
- British National Grid northing
- 343,509
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
- Electoral ward
- Brancaster · E05012323
- Parish or community
- E04006364
- Westminster constituency
- North West Norfolk · E14001405
- Output area
- E00169868
- Lower layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 002A · E01026645
- Middle layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 002 · E02005552
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 PE31
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sparrow Hall, Chalk Pit Lane, King's Lynn, PE31 8BE | 1 June 2001 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Other crime 3
- Other theft 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE31 8 residents
- 4,274
Age bands in PE31 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 36.6%
494 residents
324 residents
705 residents
1,323 residents
1,645 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.
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.
Nearby transport
- 10.2 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 10.2 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 11.4 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Walsingham
- 11.4 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Walsingham
- 15.6 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Gibraltar Point
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 002A, 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
10,997 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
- 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
Recorded crime
24 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.