Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fred Nicholson School is the nearest published school at 193 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE37 7BL
Swaffham · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Swaffham
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- PE37
- Postcode sector
- PE37 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE37 7BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE37
- Postcode sector
- PE37 7
- Latitude
- 52.649610
- Longitude
- 0.680958
- British National Grid easting
- 581,457
- British National Grid northing
- 309,135
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Swaffham · E05010256
- Parish or community
- E04006180
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00134444
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 007F · E01035133
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 007 · E02005509
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 PE37
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 193 m
Fred Nicholson School
Foundation special school
- 682 m
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Swaffham
Academy sponsor led
- 713 m
OneSchool Global UK - Swaffham Campus
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 566
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 214
- Anti social behaviour 80
- Shoplifting 77
- Criminal damage and arson 55
- Other theft 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE37 7 residents
- 6,719
Age bands in PE37 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 36.5%
843 residents
491 residents
1,129 residents
1,577 residents
2,326 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
MANOR FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
MANGATE STREET, SWAFFHAM, PE37 7QN
ODS code D82065
658 m
PLOWRIGHT MEDICAL CENTRE
1 JACK BODDY WAY, SWAFFHAM, PE37 7HJ
ODS code D82621
726 m
CAMPINGLAND SURGERY
CAMPINGLAND, SWAFFHAM, PE37 7RD
ODS code D82057
788 m
Nearby transport
- 13.4 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.4 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.4 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.4 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.7 miles
Brandon Rail Station
RLY · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 007F, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,505 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
566 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 214 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.