Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Nelson Academy is the nearest published school at 642 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE38 9BY
Downham Old Town · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Downham Old Town
- Local authority
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Postcode district
- PE38
- Postcode sector
- PE38 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE38 9BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE38
- Postcode sector
- PE38 9
- Latitude
- 52.600926
- Longitude
- 0.377342
- British National Grid easting
- 561,100
- British National Grid northing
- 303,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk · E07000146
- Electoral ward
- Downham Old Town · E05012328
- Parish or community
- E04006304
- Westminster constituency
- South West Norfolk · E14001497
- Output area
- E00135471
- Lower layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017H · E01033039
- Middle layer super output area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017 · E02005567
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
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 642 m
Nelson Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 859 m
Downham Market Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Downham Market, Hillcrest Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 662
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 260
- Anti social behaviour 103
- Shoplifting 69
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE38 9 residents
- 11,287
Age bands in PE38 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
1,746 residents
938 residents
2,572 residents
2,698 residents
3,395 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
BRIDGE STREET SURGERY
30-32 BRIDGE STREET, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9DP
ODS code D82015
250 m
HOWDALE SURGERY
48 HOWDALE ROAD, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9AF
ODS code D82068
329 m
THE HOLLIES SURGERY
PARADISE ROAD, DOWNHAM MARKET, PE38 9JE
ODS code Y00297
393 m
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Downham Market Rail Station
RLY · Downham Market
- 5.0 miles
Watlington Rail Station
RLY · Watlington
- 9.9 miles
Littleport Rail Station
RLY · Littleport
- 10.6 miles
Kings Lynn Rail Station
RLY · Kings Lynn
- 10.7 miles
King's Lynn Ferry Landing
FER · Kings Lynn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017H, 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
15,649 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
662 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 260 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.