Ashwicken

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 8° · 49% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:24

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

• 6.9 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

277 reported road collisions (2025)

89 killed or seriously injured · 359 casualties · 17.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

14 food businesses within 2 miles

• 13 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: King's Lynn (7.0 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£941 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £650
• 2 bed £848
• 3 bed £1,053

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.3 times median annual pay (7.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,102 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 172.7p · Asda (5.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · Asda (5.2 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

23 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Congham Hall Hotel & Spa (4.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

154,325 residents in King's Lynn and West Norfolk · 107/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,732
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,221
• Net moves+1,511

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 69 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,430 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (32% of 75,900)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

83 schools · 19,176 pupils

65 primary · 8 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 28 of 32 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

76 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · King's Lynn and West Norfolk

880 CQC-registered services

• Care homes319
• GP practices128
• Dentists172
• Homecare agencies178
• Hospitals & hospices29

CQC ratings: 80% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 25 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Norfolk

• Not in the Green Belt
• 2 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

250 applications decided

85.6% granted · 214 granted, 36 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

• Lab 5
• Con 17
• LD 2
• Ref 7
• Oth 24

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,800 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£731 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,249 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

36% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 87,439 certificates

12.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Norfolk): 61.1 women · 61.3 men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

3 GP surgeries · 0 pharmacies in PE32

• Grimston Medical Centre
• Litcham Health Centre
• Great Massingham Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North West Norfolk:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills178 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth173 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers168 local signatures · 13,821 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks159 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK151 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Ashwicken · 0.4 km

  Ashwicken is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Leziate, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village sits on the B1145 King's Lynn to Mundesl…

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  Bawsey SSSI · 1.3 km

  Bawsey is a 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Bawsey, east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

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  Bawsey · 1.4 km

  Bawsey is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the town of King's Lynn and 40 miles (64 km) west of the city of Norwich. The village sits astride o…

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  Leziate, Sugar and Derby Fens · 1.5 km

  Leziate, Sugar and Derby Fens is an 87.9-hectare (217-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England.

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  Leziate · 1.8 km

  Leziate is a hamlet and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish also includes the smaller village of Ashwicken.

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  Freebridge Lynn Rural District · 2.2 km

  Freebridge Lynn Rural District was a rural district in Norfolk, England from 1894 to 1974.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)