Docking

Docking is covered by postcode district PE31. It is in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk council area, Norfolk.

Typical price £355,000 Homes sold in Docking, last 12 months. ▼ 6.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 16 of 54 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Docking, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Docking, by flood risk Of the 55 postcodes in Docking that ONS places, 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Docking. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. PE31 8FS: not on the flood risk listPE31 8FT: not on the flood risk listPE31 8GH: not on the flood risk listPE31 8GJ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8GY: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LA: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LD: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LH: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LJ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LL: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LP: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LQ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LR: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LS: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LT: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LU: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LW: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LX: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LY: not on the flood risk listPE31 8LZ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NA: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NB: not on the flood risk listPE31 8ND: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NF: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NG: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NH: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NJ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NL: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NN: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NP: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NQ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NR: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NS: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NT: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NU: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NW: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NX: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NY: not on the flood risk listPE31 8NZ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8PA: not on the flood risk listPE31 8PB: not on the flood risk listPE31 8PL: not on the flood risk listPE31 8PN: not on the flood risk listPE31 8PP: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QA: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QB: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QH: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QJ: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QR: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QT: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QU: not on the flood risk listPE31 8QX: not on the flood risk listPE31 8UA: not on the flood risk listPE31 8UD: not on the flood risk listPE31 8WA: not on the flood risk list Docking Map of every postcode in Docking, by flood risk Of the 55 postcodes in Docking that ONS places, 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Docking. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Docking
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 55

Of the 55 postcodes in Docking that ONS places, 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.9030, longitude 0.6276. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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

What is it like to live in Docking?

Homes sold for a typical £355,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.4% on the 12 months before. At 16 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 55 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Burnham Surgery, 8.3 km from the middle.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education and NHS England, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Docking?

Homes in Docking sold for a typical £355,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 15 sales, down 6.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£355,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£379,250
12 months to August 2026
£355,000

▼ down 6.4% on the 12 months before

Detached£322,500 8 sales
Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
Terraced 4 sales, too few to price

Across the whole PE31 district, Docking's main postcode district: a typical £325,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Docking: 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

Are new homes being built in Docking?

11 of the 55 postcodes now in use in Docking came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 6 of the 26 homes sold in Docking were newly built (23%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE31 district, 4%.

The newest postcodes

PE31 8QUsince March 2026PE31 8UDsince September 2024PE31 8GJsince April 2024PE31 8GYsince January 2024PE31 8QTsince September 2023PE31 8QXsince June 2023

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn DockingAcross the PE31 district
The 12 months to August 2026 1 of 15 (7%) 1 of 293 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 6 of 26 (23%) 15 of 377 (4%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Docking?

Ofcom reports on 54 of the 55 postcodes in Docking. At 16 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit16 of 54
Postcodes where every home can get superfast45 of 54

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.

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

Is Docking at risk of flooding?

None of the 55 postcodes in Docking is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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

Which schools are in Docking?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Docking. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Docking?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Docking. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

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Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Docking safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 29 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Docking over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 2 September 2025
  2. None October 2025
  3. 5 November 2025
  4. 2 December 2025
  5. 2 January 2026
  6. 1 February 2026
  7. 2 March 2026
  8. 3 April 2026
  9. 2 May 2026
  10. None June 2026
  11. 8 July 2026
  12. 2 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences11 reports
Anti-social behaviour10 reports
Public order2 reports
Criminal damage and arson2 reports
Burglary2 reports
Other theft2 reports

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Docking?

District, borough or city council
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
County council
Norfolk
Parliamentary constituency
North West Norfolk
Police force area
Norfolk
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
James Wild (Conservative)

All 55 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

Moving to Docking

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Docking postcodes

55 postcodes in use in Docking, by district:

PE31 postcode district,55 postcodes

That district is in the PE postcode area.

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Places near Docking

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Docking's £355,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Snettisham9.1 km, £325,000Heacham9.2 km, £270,000Hunstanton9.9 km, £266,500Dersingham10.5 km, £293,500Wells-next-the-Sea16.1 km, £425,000Fakenham17.1 km, £250,000King's Lynn21.4 km, £217,000Clenchwarton24.5 km, £280,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Docking

What is it like to live in Docking?
Homes sold for a typical £355,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.4% on the 12 months before. At 16 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 55 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Burnham Surgery, 8.3 km from the middle. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education and NHS England, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Docking?
Docking is covered by postcode district PE31, across 55 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Docking in?
Docking is in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk council area, and Norfolk is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Docking?
Docking is in the North West Norfolk parliamentary constituency. Its MP is James Wild (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Docking?
Homes in Docking sold for a typical £355,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 15 sales, down 6.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Docking?
In Docking, primary schools at its postcodes include Docking Church of England Primary Academy and Nursery; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Smithdon High School, 9.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Docking?
Ofcom reports on 54 of the 55 postcodes in Docking. At 16 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Docking at risk of flooding?
None of the 55 postcodes in Docking is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Docking?
11 of the 55 postcodes now in use in Docking came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 6 of the 26 homes sold in Docking were newly built (23%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE31 district, 4%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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