King's Lynn

What is it like to live in King's Lynn?

Homes sold for a typical £217,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 814 of the 1,207 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 285 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 770 of its 1,289 postcodes. It has 16 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Kings Lynn, 950 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in King's Lynn?

Homes in King's Lynn sold for a typical £217,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 440 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £219,995 from 629 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £320,000 113 sales
• Semi-detached £225,000 153 sales
• Terraced £171,000 141 sales
• Flat or maisonette £105,000 33 sales

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

Across the whole PE30 district, King's Lynn's main postcode district: a typical £218,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in King's Lynn: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in King's Lynn?

62 of the 1,289 postcodes now in use in King's Lynn came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 6 of the 629 homes sold in King's Lynn were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE30 district, 8%.

The newest postcodes

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in King's Lynn?

Ofcom reports on 1,207 of the 1,289 postcodes in King's Lynn. At 814 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is King's Lynn at risk of flooding?

770 of the 1,289 postcodes in King's Lynn 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 285 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in King's Lynn?

The open schools at the postcodes in King's Lynn (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from King's Lynn?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in King's Lynn is Kings Lynn Rail Station, 950 m away in a straight line.

• Kings Lynn Rail Station Railway station 950 mWalk
• Watlington Rail Station Railway station 9.8 kmDrive
• Downham Market Rail Station Railway station 17.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in King's Lynn?

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

• Vida Healthcare Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01485 500139 600 mWalk
• Southgates Surgical & Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01553 819477 1.4 kmCycle
• The Woottons Surgery Phone 01553 631469 3.8 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is King's Lynn safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,986 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in King's Lynn 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 78, bicycle theft 75, vehicle crime 61, possession of weapons 48, theft from the person 28, robbery 27.

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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs King's Lynn?

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 1,289 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.