Property market
The five-year median is £280,000 from 2 recorded sales in PE37 8GB. 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 8GB
Necton · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE37 8GB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2014
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE37
- Postcode sector
- PE37 8
- Latitude
- 52.649165
- Longitude
- 0.770648
- British National Grid easting
- 587,525
- British National Grid northing
- 309,315
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Necton · E05010253
- Parish or community
- E04006150
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00134393
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 004A · E01026446
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 004 · E02005506
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Ash Meadow, Necton, Swaffham, PE37 8GB | 16 March 2023 | £283,000 |
| 4, Ash Meadow, Necton, Swaffham, PE37 8GB | 25 August 2021 | £277,000 |
| 1, Ash Meadow, Necton, Swaffham, PE37 8GB | 19 September 2018 | £227,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 730 m
Necton VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.4 km
Sporle Church of England Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 90
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 29
- Shoplifting 20
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Other theft 7
- Public order 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- PE37 8 residents
- 5,115
10 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.
Nearby transport
- 7.7 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Dereham
- 7.7 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Dereham
- 14.0 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 14.0 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Santon Downham
- 14.0 miles
Hall Drive
BCT · Santon Downham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 004A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,013 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 2
- 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Necton VA Primary School is the nearest published school at 730 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
90 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 29 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.