Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Blenheim Park Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE31 8SN
Bircham with Rudhams · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- King's Lynn
- Ward
- Bircham with Rudhams
- 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 8SN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE31
- Postcode sector
- PE31 8
- Latitude
- 52.859902
- Longitude
- 0.712340
- British National Grid easting
- 582,698
- British National Grid northing
- 332,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
- Electoral ward
- Bircham with Rudhams · E05012322
- Parish or community
- E04006358
- Westminster constituency
- North West Norfolk · E14001405
- Output area
- E00135680
- Lower layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 002D · E01026695
- 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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Common End, Syderstone, King's Lynn, PE31 8SN | 19 August 2015 | £132,000 |
| The Linnets, 2, Common End, Syderstone, King's Lynn, PE31 8SN | 3 October 2014 | £270,000 |
| The Linnets, 1, Common End, Syderstone, King's Lynn, PE31 8SN | 24 January 2014 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.7 km
Blenheim Park Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 4.7 km
Rudham CofE Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 23
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Public order 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 1
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+
- 20%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 20%
- Gigabit-capable
- 20%
- 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
- 7.1 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Walsingham
- 7.1 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Walsingham
- 8.9 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
MET · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 8.9 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)
PLT · Wells-next-the-Sea
- 14.9 miles
Kings Lynn Rail Station
RLY · Kings Lynn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 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
11,084 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
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
23 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.917 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.