Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Smithdon High School is the nearest published school at 651 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE36 5ER
Hunstanton · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hunstanton
- Local authority
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- PE36
- Postcode sector
- PE36 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE36 5ER
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE36
- Postcode sector
- PE36 5
- Latitude
- 52.938546
- Longitude
- 0.488077
- British National Grid easting
- 567,300
- British National Grid northing
- 340,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
- Electoral ward
- Hunstanton · E05012338
- Parish or community
- E04006325
- Westminster constituency
- North West Norfolk · E14001405
- Output area
- E00135618
- Lower layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 001D · E01026683
- Middle layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 001 · E02005551
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 PE36
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 651 m
Smithdon High School
Academy sponsor led
- 697 m
Glebe House School
Other independent school
- 700 m
Hunstanton Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 285
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 135
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Other theft 29
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Public order 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE36 5 residents
- 3,977
Age bands in PE36 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 42.6%
372 residents
285 residents
532 residents
1,022 residents
1,639 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
HEACHAM GROUP PRACTICE
45 STATION ROAD, HEACHAM, KINGS LYNN, PE31 7EX
ODS code D82027
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 12.9 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Gibraltar Point
- 13.2 miles
Kings Lynn Rail Station
RLY · Kings Lynn
- 13.3 miles
West Lynn Ferry Landing
FBT · West Lynn
- 13.3 miles
West Lynn Ferry Landing
FER · West Lynn
- 13.3 miles
King's Lynn Ferry Landing
FER · Kings Lynn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 001D, 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
10,777 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
285 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 135 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.