NR31 postcode district: Gorleston-on-Sea and around

NR31 is a postcode district mostly in Norfolk, with 1,193 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Gorleston-on-Sea, Bradwell, Great Yarmouth and 2 more places. It is split between 3 councils: Great Yarmouth (1,186 postcodes), South Norfolk (6) and East Suffolk (1). 1,192 are in Norfolk and 1 in Suffolk.

Postcodes in use: 1,193
Sectors: 5
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 5 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in NR31, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 58
In use before 2020: 1,135
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,193 postcodes in NR31 that ONS places, 58 are new since 2020 and 1,135 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.5744, longitude 1.7086. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

NR31 9ZEMay 2026 NR31 9YRApril 2026 NR31 9YSApril 2026 NR31 9ZBApril 2026 NR31 9YUJanuary 2026

Where the new postcodes lie together

23 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NR31 9ZB, is the newest of them.
9 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NR31 9XZ, is the newest of them.
6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NR31 8FE, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NR31 9YR, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in NR31?

Ofcom reports on 1,176 of the 1,193 postcodes in NR31. At 963 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit963 of 1,176

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,127 of 1,176

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 1,176

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is NR31 at risk of flooding?

273 of the 1,193 postcodes in NR31 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 822 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 273 of 1,193 postcodes High: 668Medium: 154Low: 395Very low: 3,582

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in NR31?

Homes in NR31 sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 568 sales, down 2.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£220,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£225,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 2.2% on the 12 months before

Detached £325,000 177 sales
Semi-detached £230,000 151 sales
Terraced £165,000 221 sales
Flat or maisonette £110,000 19 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it