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Blackborough End

Blackborough End is a village in Norfolk, England, with a population of around 259. It has around 1 restaurant or café and the nearest railway station is Watlington, 6.5 km away. There were around 4 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 Blackborough End area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the King's Lynn and West Norfolk area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 154,325 residents at roughly 107 people per km².

Council
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
County
Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk
Police force
Norfolk
57/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 99th of 294 English council areas — better than 66% of them.

Low crime76
Home affordability64
Affordable rents70
Good schools45
Life expectancy60
Low deprivation23
Employment57
Low council tax53

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

11°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 59% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:24

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

12US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

3 reported · August 2026▼ 25% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour3

Neighbourhood team: Watlington · Norfolk

Local policing priorities

  • We work with the community and local partners, as well as looking at our own data to come up with the priority that we will have for Watl…
  • We work with the community and local partners, as well as looking at our own data to come up with priorities that we will have for West N…

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

10 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 10 rated 4–5 ★ (9 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Watlington (6.5 km)
  • 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Watlington (6.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

House-price data isn’t available for this area.

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 172.7p · Asda (7.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · Asda (7.8 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

20 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: king's Lynn supercharger (4.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools7
  • Sports pitches4
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

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)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

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

Council tax

£2,430 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,620
B £1,890
C £2,160
D £2,430
E £2,970
F £3,510
G £4,050
H £4,860

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Downham Market AcademyGood
  • King's Lynn AcademyGood
  • Smithdon High SchoolGood
  • Iceni Secondary Academy
  • King Edward VII Academy
  • Marshland High School
  • Springwood High School
  • St Clement's High School

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

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
  • 14 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

250 applications decided

85.6% granted · 214 granted, 36 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

James Wild

Conservative

North West Norfolk

Recent votes:

  • NoBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 8: Capital gains tax (business asset disposal relief)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

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

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens1
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,800 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Production Manager

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

69% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Gas 30% · Nuclear 17% · Biomass 7%

127 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 0 pharmacies in PE32

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

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North West Norfolk:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Blackborough End Pit · 0.4 km

    Blackborough End Pit is a 13.2-hectare (33-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

  • Blackborough Priory · 1.1 km

    Blackborough Priory was a Benedictine monastic house in Norfolk, England, about 5 miles or 8 km south east of King's Lynn. The Ordnance Survey map shows the remains of fishponds nearby, which may have been for the use…

  • Middleton, Norfolk · 1.4 km

    Middleton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 5.02 mi2 (13.0 km2) and had a population of 1,516 in 621 households at the 2001 census, reducing to 1,450 at the 2011 Census.

  • Middleton Mount · 1.8 km

    Middleton Mount, also called Middleton Motte and Middleton Castle, is the remains of a medieval castle situated in the village of Middleton, in Norfolk, England.

  • North Runcton · 2.3 km

    North Runcton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 43.2 miles (69.5 km) west of Norwich, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) south-south-east of King's Lynn and 102 miles (164 km) north of L…

  • Middleton Towers · 2.9 km

    Middleton Towers is a privately owned country house in Norfolk, England, near the village of Middleton and about 3 miles (5 km) east of King's Lynn. The hall is a Grade I listed building, and the adjacent earthworks a…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Blackborough End?
Blackborough End is a town in Norfolk, England, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk local authority.
What is the population of Blackborough End?
Blackborough End has an approximate settlement population of 259.
How deprived is Blackborough End?
The King's Lynn and West Norfolk local authority, which includes Blackborough End, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.