Ormesby St Margaret
Ormesby St Margaret is covered by postcode district NR29. It is in the Great Yarmouth council area, Norfolk.
Every postcode in Ormesby St Margaret, by flood risk
- 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: 63
Of the 63 postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret that ONS places, 63 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 52.6749, longitude 1.6901. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
What is it like to live in Ormesby St Margaret?
Homes sold for a typical £245,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 42 of the 62 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 63 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 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Great Yarmouth, 7.3 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 Ormesby St Margaret?
Homes in Ormesby St Margaret sold for a typical £245,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 29 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £297,500 from 37 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.
- Detached £347,500 16 sales
- Semi-detached £207,500 5 sales
- Terraced £185,000 8 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole NR29 district, Ormesby St Margaret's main postcode district: a typical £257,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ormesby St Margaret: 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 Ormesby St Margaret?
None of the 63 postcodes now in use in Ormesby St Margaret came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Ormesby St Margaret were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NR29 district, 4%.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Ormesby St Margaret | Across the NR29 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 29 (0%) | 1 of 280 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 37 (0%) | 14 of 358 (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.
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 Ormesby St Margaret?
Ofcom reports on 62 of the 63 postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret. At 42 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Ormesby St Margaret at risk of flooding?
None of the 63 postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Ormesby St Margaret?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Ormesby St Margaret?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret is Great Yarmouth Rail Station, 7.3 km away in a straight line.
- Great Yarmouth Rail Station Railway station 7.3 kmDrive
- Berney Arms Rail Station Railway station 10.3 kmDrive
- Acle Rail Station Railway station 10.8 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 Ormesby St Margaret?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Coastal Villages Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01493 730205 300 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Ormesby St Margaret safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 104 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret 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
- 16 September 2025
- 14 October 2025
- 13 November 2025
- 7 December 2025
- 7 January 2026
- 3 February 2026
- 7 March 2026
- 7 April 2026
- 8 May 2026
- 8 June 2026
- 6 July 2026
- 8 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: possession of weapons 2, vehicle crime 1, drugs 1, robbery 1.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Ormesby St Margaret?
- District, borough or city council
- Great Yarmouth
- County council
- Norfolk
- Parliamentary constituency
- Great Yarmouth
- Police force area
- Norfolk
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain)
All 63 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.
Moving to Ormesby St Margaret
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Great Yarmouth about council tax Council tax, on great-yarmouth.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Ormesby St Margaret
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Ormesby St Margaret postcodes
63 postcodes in use in Ormesby St Margaret, by district:
That district is in the NR postcode area.
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Places near Ormesby St Margaret
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Ormesby St Margaret's £245,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Ormesby St Margaret
- What is the postcode for Ormesby St Margaret?
- Postcode district NR29, with 63 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Ormesby St Margaret in?
- Great Yarmouth, with Norfolk as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Ormesby St Margaret?
- Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain), for Great Yarmouth. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Ormesby St Margaret?
- A typical £245,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 29 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Ormesby St Margaret?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Ormesby Village Junior School and Ormesby Village Infant School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Caister Academy, 3.6 km away. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Ormesby St Margaret have a railway station?
- The nearest is Great Yarmouth station, 7.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Ormesby St Margaret?
- Ofcom reports on 62 of the 63 postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret. At 42 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Ormesby St Margaret at risk of flooding?
- None of the 63 postcodes in Ormesby St Margaret 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Ormesby St Margaret?
- None of the 63 postcodes now in use in Ormesby St Margaret came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Ormesby St Margaret were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NR29 district, 4%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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