Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hilgay Riverside Academy is the nearest published school at 295 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE38 0JH
Denver · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Downham Market
- 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 0JH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE38
- Postcode sector
- PE38 0
- Latitude
- 52.560933
- Longitude
- 0.391468
- British National Grid easting
- 562,204
- British National Grid northing
- 298,584
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
- E00135597
- 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
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bourne House, East End, Hilgay, Downham Market, PE38 0JH | 19 May 2017 | £368,000 |
| Mulberry House, East End, Hilgay, Downham Market, PE38 0JH | 2 March 2017 | £150,000 |
| Longview, East End, Hilgay, Downham Market, PE38 0JH | 30 November 2016 | £359,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 295 m
Hilgay Riverside Academy
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
Denver Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.1 km
Southery Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 22
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- PE38 0 residents
- 5,260
19 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PE38 0 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+
- 40.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 40.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 40.9%
- 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
HOWDALE SURGERY
48 HOWDALE ROAD, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9AF
ODS code D82068
4.5 km
BRIDGE STREET SURGERY
30-32 BRIDGE STREET, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9DP
ODS code D82015
4.8 km
THE HOLLIES SURGERY
PARADISE ROAD, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9JE
ODS code Y00297
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 3.2 miles
Downham Market Rail Station
RLY · Downham Market
- 7.5 miles
Littleport Rail Station
RLY · Littleport
- 7.8 miles
Watlington Rail Station
RLY · Watlington
- 9.1 miles
Shippea Hill Rail Station
RLY · Shippea Hill
- 10.0 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.
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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
22 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.833 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.