Property market
The five-year median is £292,500 from 2 recorded sales in PE37 8DB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Breckland is £273,851 in June 2026, up 2.7% year on year.
PE37 8DB
Swaffham · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE37 8DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE37
- Postcode sector
- PE37 8
- Latitude
- 52.643220
- Longitude
- 0.700983
- British National Grid easting
- 582,838
- British National Grid northing
- 308,475
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
- E00134455
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 007B · E01026456
- 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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Cowshed, North Pickenham Road, Swaffham, PE37 8DB | 31 August 2022 | £110,000 |
| Barnwood, North Pickenham Road, Swaffham, PE37 8DB | 10 September 2021 | £475,000 |
| Unit 1, North Pickenham Road, Swaffham, PE37 8DB | 15 March 2002 | £67,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 671 m
Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
- 931 m
Swaffham CofE Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 937 m
The Nicholas Hamond Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 613
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 254
- Anti social behaviour 84
- Shoplifting 76
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Other theft 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- PE37 8 residents
- 5,115
9 female, 6 male
Age bands in PE37 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
786 residents
480 residents
1,149 residents
1,482 residents
1,572 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PE37 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
CAMPINGLAND SURGERY
CAMPINGLAND, SWAFFHAM, PE37 7RD
ODS code D82057
744 m
MANOR FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
MANGATE STREET, SWAFFHAM, PE37 7QN
ODS code D82065
924 m
PLOWRIGHT MEDICAL CENTRE
1 JACK BODDY WAY, SWAFFHAM, PE37 7HJ
ODS code D82621
1.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 13.0 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.0 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.0 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.1 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
- 13.5 miles
Brandon Rail Station
RLY · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 007B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,125 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School is the nearest published school at 671 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
613 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 254 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.