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Great Ryburgh

Great Ryburgh is a village in Norfolk, England, with a population of around 694. The area has around 1 restaurant or café and 3 bus stops. In June 2026, there were around 5 recorded street crimes, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Great Ryburgh area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the North Norfolk area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 102,980 residents at roughly 107 people per km².

Council
North Norfolk
County
Norfolk
Constituency
Broadland
Police force
Norfolk
54/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 128th of 294 English council areas — better than 56% of them.

Low crime97
Home affordability35
Affordable rents62
Good schools5
Life expectancy70
Low deprivation30
Employment65
Low council tax44

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

16°CLight rain shower

  • Today: 22° / 15° · 82% rain
  • Tomorrow: 24° / 15° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:25Sunset 19:19

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Crime

3 reported · July 2026

  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Fakenham · Norfolk

Local policing priorities

  • We work with the community and local partners, while also looking at our own data, to come up with priorities for Fakenham for the next t…
  • Having reviewed the data and listened to community feedback, the policing priority for Fakenham and the surrounding area remains as tackl…

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

Road safety

151 reported road collisions (2024)

48 killed or seriously injured · 218 casualties · 14.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

10 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

1 active warning/alert

  • Flood alert: The north Norfolk coast from Old Hunstanton, to and including Cley

Source: Environment Agency

Buses & trains

  • 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

£300,273 average 1.7% YoY

Across North Norfolk · to 2026-06

Detached£419,727
Semi-detached£277,800
Terraced£233,334
Flat£159,131

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£864 average monthly rent 5% YoY

  • 1 bed £623
  • 2 bed £808
  • 3 bed £1,001

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

9.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.3 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 169.9p · Morrisons (4 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Morrisons (4 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

6 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 75 kW
  • Nearest: Morrisons Fakenham (4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches4
  • Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

102,980 residents in North Norfolk · 107/km²

  • Under 16: 13%
  • 16–64: 53%
  • 65+: 34%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 94 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,460 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (26% of 56,720)

A £1,640
B £1,913
C £2,187
D £2,460
E £3,007
F £3,553
G £4,100
H £4,920

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

Schools

63 schools · 11,342 pupils

46 primary · 7 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 17 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (74%)

55inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Alderman Peel High SchoolGood
  • North Walsham High SchoolGood
  • Sheringham High SchoolGood
  • Stalham High SchoolGood
  • Broadland High Ormiston Academy
  • Cromer Academy
  • Fakenham Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · North Norfolk

Care & health services

877 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes320
  • GP practices126
  • Dentists171
  • Homecare agencies178
  • Hospitals & hospices29

CQC ratings: 81% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 23 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Norfolk

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

215 applications decided

94.4% granted · 203 granted, 12 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Jerome Mayhew

Conservative

Broadland and Fakenham

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • NoClosure motion
  • AyeSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • NoDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 11
  • LD 26
  • Oth 3

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

Amenities nearby

  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,900 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

9 jobs advertised · £29,830 avg

e.g. Support Worker, Production Operator, Night Support Worker

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£646 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,142 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

31% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 59,419 certificates

13.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

76% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 43% · Wind 33% · Gas 19% · Imports 5%

78 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 86 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile8.1
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Broadland and Fakenham:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Great Ryburgh · 0.0 km

    Great Ryburgh is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ryburgh, in the North Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk.

  • Ryburgh railway station · 0.2 km

    Ryburgh railway station was a railway station in the village of Great Ryburgh in the English county of Norfolk.

  • Ryburgh · 0.7 km

    Ryburgh is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish is 21.2 miles (34.1 km) south-west of Cromer, 23.1 miles (37.2 km) north-west of Norwich and 117 miles (188 km) north-east of London. The parish l…

  • Pensthorpe Natural Park · 1.7 km

    Pensthorpe Natural Park is located in Pensthorpe, Norfolk, England and is approximately one mile from Fakenham and close to the A1067 road. The park covers 700 acres (280 ha). The River Wensum, which runs through the…

  • Testerton · 1.9 km

    Testerton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Pudding Norton, in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located between the village of Great Ryburgh and the m…

  • Stibbard · 2.0 km

    Stibbard is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 19.3 miles (31.1 km) south-west of Cromer, 21.2 miles (34.1 km) north-west of Norwich and 120 mi (190 km) north-east of London. T…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Great Ryburgh?
Great Ryburgh is a town in Norfolk, England, in the North Norfolk local authority.
What is the population of Great Ryburgh?
Great Ryburgh has an approximate settlement population of 694.
How deprived is Great Ryburgh?
The North Norfolk local authority, which includes Great Ryburgh, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.