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Belton (Great Yarmouth)

Belton (Great Yarmouth) is a town or village in Norfolk, England. There are 15 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Berney Arms, 3.2 km away. There were around 16 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Belton (Great Yarmouth) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Great Yarmouth area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 99,750 residents at roughly 572 people per km².

Council
Great Yarmouth
County
Norfolk
Constituency
Great Yarmouth
Police force
Norfolk
34/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 267th of 294 English council areas — better than 9% of them.

Low crime32
Home affordability74
Affordable rents71
Good schools9
Life expectancy23
Low deprivation8
Employment18
Low council tax57

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°COvercast

  • Today: 11° / 10° · 12% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:16

9h 19m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.0 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

Crime

27 reported · August 2026▲ 238% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences11
  • Anti-social behaviour6
  • Criminal damage & arson3
  • Drugs2

Local policing priorities

  • We work with the community and local partners, while also looking at our own data, to come up with priorities for the Southern Villages a…
  • We work with the community and local partners, while also looking at our own data, to come up with priorities for the Southern Villages a…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

174 reported road collisions (2025)

42 killed or seriously injured · 224 casualties · 17.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

42 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 37 rated 4–5 ★ (31 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Berney Arms (3.2 km)
  • 15 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Berney Arms (3.2 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£204,630 average▼ 1.6% YoY

Across Great Yarmouth · to 2026-08

Detached£308,013
Semi-detached£208,344
Terraced£164,669
Flat£103,675

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£841 average monthly rent▲ 7.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £591
  • 2 bed £770
  • 3 bed £933

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

Affordability

6.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.6 times median annual pay (6.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,302 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 166.7p · Asda (6.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 193.7p · Asda (6.5 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

20 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: 137 Beccles Road (3.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools3
  • Sports pitches9
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

99,750 residents in Great Yarmouth · 572/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,131
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,266
  • Net moves+865

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

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 25 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

25% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,414 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (42% of 50,190)

A £1,610
B £1,878
C £2,146
D £2,414
E £2,951
F £3,487
G £4,024
H £4,829

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

Schools

43 schools · 12,957 pupils

30 primary · 6 secondary · 7 other

Ofsted: 10 of 13 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (77%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Lynn Grove AcademyGood
  • Caister Academy
  • Cliff Park Ormiston Academy
  • Flegg High Ormiston Academy
  • Great Yarmouth Charter Academy
  • Ormiston Venture Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Great Yarmouth

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

67 applications decided

74.6% granted · 50 granted, 17 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain

Great Yarmouth

Recent votes:

  • NoBudget Resolution No. 8: Capital gains tax (business asset disposal relief)
  • NoBudget Resolution No.7: Increase in rate of banking surcharge for temporary period
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 3: Income tax (default, property and savings rates)
  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative (minority)

  • Lab 18
  • Con 17
  • Oth 4

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • Supermarkets1
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

3,430 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£699 median full-time weekly pay

4.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,544 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 52,353 certificates

13.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

79% low-carbon electricity

Wind 48% · Nuclear 20% · Gas 20% · Biomass 11%

90 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 79.2 yrs men

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

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile8.2
  • Happiness yesterday7.7
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 14 pharmacies in NR31

  • Beaches Medical Centre
  • The Millwood Partnership
  • Gp Service Accident And Emergency

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Great Yarmouth:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Belton with Browston · 0.1 km

    Belton with Browston is a civil parish in the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Historically part of Suffolk, the parish consists of the villages of Belton and Browston Green, and is situated 5 miles (8.0…

  • Belton and Burgh railway station · 0.3 km

    Belton & Burgh was a railway station serving the Norfolk villages of Belton and Burgh Castle. It once saw trains on the main line from Yarmouth South Town to London, but was closed in 1959 as part of a major re-evalua…

  • Black Mill, Belton · 1.5 km

    Black Mill is a Grade II listed drainage mill at Belton, Norfolk, United Kingdom. It was built in the 1830s and worked by wind until c.1947. The mill was conserved in the 2000s.

  • Gariannonum · 1.7 km

    Gariannonum, or Gariannum, was a Roman Saxon Shore fort in Norfolk, England. The Notitia Dignitatum, a Roman Army "order of battle" from about AD 400, lists nine forts of the Saxon Shore in south and east England, amo…

  • Burgh Castle (Roman fortification) · 1.8 km

    Burgh Castle is the site of one of nine Roman Saxon Shore forts constructed in England around the 3rd century AD, to hold troops as a defence against Saxon raids up the rivers of the east and south coasts of southern…

  • River Waveney · 1.9 km

    The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The earliest attestation of the name is from 1275, Wahenhe, from *wagen + ea, meani…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Belton (Great Yarmouth)?
Belton (Great Yarmouth) is a town in Norfolk, England, in the Great Yarmouth local authority.
How deprived is Belton (Great Yarmouth)?
The Great Yarmouth local authority, which includes Belton (Great Yarmouth), is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.