Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hilgay Riverside Academy is the nearest published school at 474 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE38 0DE
Denver · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Denver
- Local authority
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- PE38
- Postcode sector
- PE38 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE38 0DE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE38
- Postcode sector
- PE38 0
- Latitude
- 52.557590
- Longitude
- 0.383334
- British National Grid easting
- 561,665
- British National Grid northing
- 298,194
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
- Electoral ward
- Denver · E05012326
- Parish or community
- E04006320
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00135595
- Lower layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 018A · E01026679
- Middle layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 018 · E02005568
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 PE38
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 474 m
Hilgay Riverside Academy
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
Denver Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.7 km
Southery Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE38 0 residents
- 5,260
Age bands in PE38 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.6%
772 residents
444 residents
1,059 residents
1,601 residents
1,200 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
HOWDALE SURGERY
48 HOWDALE ROAD, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9AF
ODS code D82068
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 3.3 miles
Downham Market Rail Station
RLY · Downham Market
- 7.2 miles
Littleport Rail Station
RLY · Littleport
- 8.0 miles
Watlington Rail Station
RLY · Watlington
- 8.9 miles
Shippea Hill Rail Station
RLY · Shippea Hill
- 9.9 miles
Poultry Farm
BCT · Sedge Fen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 018A, 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
12,342 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.