Harleston

Harleston is covered by postcode district IP20. It is in the South Norfolk council area, Norfolk.

Typical price £242,500 Homes sold in Harleston, last 12 months. ▼ 3% on the year before Gigabit broadband 71 of 132 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 2 of 134 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 9 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 all-through school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Harleston, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Harleston, by flood risk Of the 134 postcodes in Harleston that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 132 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Harleston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A143 IP20 0WD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AL: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AN: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AP: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AR: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AS: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AT: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AU: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AW: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AX: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9AZ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BG: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BL: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BN: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BP: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BQ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BS: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BT: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BU: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BW: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BX: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9BZ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DF: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DG: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DL: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DN: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DQ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DR: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DS: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DT: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DU: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DW: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DX: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9DZ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9ED: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EF: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EL: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EN: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EP: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EQ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9ER: not on the flood risk listIP20 9ES: not on the flood risk listIP20 9ET: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EU: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EW: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EX: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9EZ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FF: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FG: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9FL: not on the flood risk listIP20 9GA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9GB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9GD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9GE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9GF: not on the flood risk listIP20 9GN: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HF: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HG: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HQ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HR: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HS: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HT: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HU: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HW: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HX: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HZ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JG: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JJ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JN: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JP: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JR: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JT: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JU: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JW: not on the flood risk listIP20 9JY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9LP: not on the flood risk listIP20 9LR: not on the flood risk listIP20 9LS: not on the flood risk listIP20 9LT: not on the flood risk listIP20 9LX: not on the flood risk listIP20 9PY: not on the flood risk listIP20 9PZ: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QA: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QB: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QD: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QE: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QG: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QH: not on the flood risk listIP20 9QL: not on the flood risk listIP20 9HL: medium flood risk at worstIP20 9HE: high flood risk Harleston Map of every postcode in Harleston, by flood risk Of the 134 postcodes in Harleston that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 132 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Harleston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A143 Harleston
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 132

Of the 134 postcodes in Harleston that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 132 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4016, longitude 1.3002. 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

IP20 9HE1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Harleston?

Homes sold for a typical £242,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3% on the 12 months before. At 71 of the 132 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 9 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 134 postcodes. It has 1 all-through school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Diss, 12.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Harleston?

Homes in Harleston sold for a typical £242,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 74 sales, down 3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£242,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£250,000
12 months to August 2026
£242,500

▼ down 3% on the 12 months before

Detached£291,250 28 sales
Semi-detached£252,500 22 sales
Terraced£190,000 15 sales
Flat or maisonette£135,000 9 sales

Across the whole IP20 district, Harleston's main postcode district: a typical £275,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Harleston: 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 Harleston?

5 of the 134 postcodes now in use in Harleston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 4 of the 84 homes sold in Harleston were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP20 district, 12%.

The newest postcodes

IP20 9EWsince May 2023IP20 9FJsince May 2023IP20 9FLsince December 2022IP20 9YYsince November 2021IP20 9FGsince February 2021

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 HarlestonAcross the IP20 district
The 12 months to August 2026 2 of 74 (3%) 2 of 114 (2%)
The 12 months to August 2025 4 of 84 (5%) 16 of 139 (12%)

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 Harleston?

Ofcom reports on 132 of the 134 postcodes in Harleston. At 71 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit71 of 132
Postcodes where every home can get superfast124 of 132
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 132

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 Harleston at risk of flooding?

2 of the 134 postcodes in Harleston 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 9 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2 of 134 postcodes High: 1Medium: 8Low: 32

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

Which schools are in Harleston?

The open schools at the postcodes in Harleston. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. 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

How far is the station from Harleston?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Harleston is Diss Rail Station, 12.4 km away in a straight line.

  • Diss Rail Station Railway station 12.4 kmDrive
  • Halesworth Rail Station Railway station 15.2 kmDrive
  • Brampton (Suffolk) Rail Station Railway station 16.5 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Harleston?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Harleston. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

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

Is Harleston safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 271 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Harleston 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. 21 September 2025
  2. 13 October 2025
  3. 11 November 2025
  4. 19 December 2025
  5. 33 January 2026
  6. 33 February 2026
  7. 22 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 24 May 2026
  10. 21 June 2026
  11. 24 July 2026
  12. 37 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences131 reports
Anti-social behaviour46 reports
Criminal damage and arson30 reports
Public order12 reports
Vehicle crime11 reports
Burglary9 reports
Drugs8 reports
Shoplifting7 reports

Also: other theft 7, other crime 4, theft from the person 2, bicycle theft 2, possession of weapons 2.

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 Harleston?

District, borough or city council
South Norfolk
County council
Norfolk
Parliamentary constituency
Waveney Valley
Police force area
Norfolk
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Adrian Ramsay (Green Party)

All 134 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 Harleston

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Harleston postcodes

134 postcodes in use in Harleston, by district:

IP20 postcode district,134 postcodes

That district is in the IP postcode area.

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Places near Harleston

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Harleston's £242,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Long Stratton10.7 km, £250,000Bungay11.2 km, £245,000Diss13.1 km, £250,250Eye, Mid Suffolk13.7 km, £305,000Halesworth15.2 km, £260,000Mulbarton17.8 km, £310,000Beccles19.0 km, £239,000Loddon19.0 km, £300,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Harleston

What is it like to live in Harleston?
Homes sold for a typical £242,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3% on the 12 months before. At 71 of the 132 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 9 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 134 postcodes. It has 1 all-through school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Diss, 12.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. 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, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Harleston?
Harleston is covered by postcode district IP20, across 134 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Harleston in?
Harleston is in the South Norfolk council area, and Norfolk is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Harleston?
Harleston is in the Waveney Valley parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Adrian Ramsay (Green Party), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Harleston?
Homes in Harleston sold for a typical £242,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 74 sales, down 3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Harleston?
In Harleston, primary schools at its postcodes include The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School); secondary schools at its postcodes include The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School). Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Harleston have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Harleston is Diss, 12.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Harleston?
Ofcom reports on 132 of the 134 postcodes in Harleston. At 71 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Harleston at risk of flooding?
2 of the 134 postcodes in Harleston 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 9 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Harleston?
5 of the 134 postcodes now in use in Harleston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 4 of the 84 homes sold in Harleston were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP20 district, 12%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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