Norwich

What is it like to live in Norwich?

Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 3,616 of the 4,597 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 450 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 234 of its 5,027 postcodes. It has 55 primary schools, 13 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Norwich, 1.7 km 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 Norwich?

Homes in Norwich sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 2,310 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £250,000 from 2,981 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £365,000 466 sales
• Semi-detached £273,750 574 sales
• Terraced £240,000 805 sales
• Flat or maisonette £150,000 465 sales

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

Across the whole NR7 district, Norwich's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Norwich: 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 Norwich?

236 of the 5,027 postcodes now in use in Norwich came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 68 of the 2,981 homes sold in Norwich were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NR7 district, Under 1%.

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 Norwich?

Ofcom reports on 4,597 of the 5,027 postcodes in Norwich. At 3,616 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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 Norwich at risk of flooding?

234 of the 5,027 postcodes in Norwich 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 450 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 Norwich?

The open schools at the postcodes in Norwich (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 Norwich?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Norwich is Norwich Rail Station, 1.7 km away in a straight line.

• Norwich Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
• Salhouse Rail Station Railway station 8.0 kmDrive
• Brundall Gardens Rail Station Railway station 8.8 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 Norwich?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Norwich, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Oak Street Medical Pract. Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01603 613431 450 mWalk
• Vulnerable Adults Service Phone 01603 612481 600 mWalk
• Prospect Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01603 488477 650 mWalk
• Castle Partnership Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01603 448800 750 mWalk
• Magdalen Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2023 · Phone 01603 475555 800 mWalk

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

Is Norwich safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 9,268 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Norwich 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 182, bicycle theft 165, robbery 126, possession of weapons 119, other crime 118, theft from the person 97.

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 Norwich?

Councils

Norwich (3,340), Broadland (1,455) and South Norfolk (232)

County council

Norfolk

Parliamentary constituencies

Norwich South (2,559), Norwich North (2,364), South Norfolk (78) and 1 other

Police force area

Norfolk

Region

East of England

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.