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Marham

Marham is a village in Norfolk, England, with a population of around 733. It has around 1 restaurant or café, and there were around 4 recorded street crimes in June 2026, 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 Marham area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Breckland area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 141,476 residents at roughly 108 people per km².

Council
Breckland
County
Norfolk
Constituency
South West Norfolk
Police force
Norfolk
56/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 109th of 294 English council areas — better than 63% of them.

Low crime86
Home affordability56
Affordable rents60
Good schools22
Life expectancy55
Low deprivation38
Employment69
Low council tax49

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°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 6° · 48% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:28

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

70US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

8 reported · August 2026▲ 100% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences5
  • Other theft1
  • Public order1
  • Other crime1

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

297 reported road collisions (2025)

93 killed or seriously injured · 402 casualties · 21 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

21 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 18 rated 4–5 ★ (17 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Watlington (9.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£266,835 average▼ 0.3% YoY

Across Breckland · to 2026-08

Detached£363,192
Semi-detached£238,211
Terraced£192,685
Flat£108,024

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£928 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £665
  • 2 bed £846
  • 3 bed £1,044

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

Affordability

7.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.9 times median annual pay (7.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,035 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

EV charging

1 charging location within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 7 kW
  • Nearest: Red Barn Events Ltd (7.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches13
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

141,476 residents in Breckland · 108/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 58%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,583
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,328
  • Net moves+2,255

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 112 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,444 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (28% of 65,920)

A £1,629
B £1,901
C £2,172
D £2,444
E £2,987
F £3,530
G £4,073
H £4,887

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

Schools

73 schools · 17,375 pupils

55 primary · 7 secondary · 11 other

Ofsted: 31 of 38 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Northgate High SchoolGood
  • The Nicholas Hamond AcademyGood
  • The Thetford AcademyGood
  • Wayland AcademyGood
  • Attleborough Academy
  • Dereham Neatherd High School
  • Old Buckenham High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Breckland

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

197 applications decided

83.8% granted · 165 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Lab 9
  • Con 29
  • Grn 1
  • Ref 5
  • Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,200 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

11 jobs advertised · £25,165 avg

e.g. Delivery Driver, Associate Mechanic F35 RAF Marham, Self Employed Van Driver

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£717 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,170 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 69,315 certificates

11.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.4 yrs men

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

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.8
  • Feeling worthwhile8.0
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in PE33

  • Marham Medical Centre
  • Watlington Medical Centre
  • Boughton Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South West Norfolk:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Marham Abbey · 0.0 km

    Marham Abbey was situated in the village of Marham, southeast of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. It was founded by Isabel, Countess of Arundel, in 1249 as a monastery for Cistercian nuns and dedicated to St Mary, St Ba…

  • Marham · 0.3 km

    Marham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximate 12 miles (19 km) away from King's Lynn. An RAF station, RAF Marham, is situated nearby at Upper Marham. The village covers an area of…

  • Pentney Priory · 2.3 km

    Pentney Priory was an Augustinian priory at Pentney in the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England. The ruins of the priory, mostly comprising the flint-built gatehouse, are Grade I listed.

  • RAF Marham · 2.3 km

    RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Marham in the county of Norfolk, East Anglia, south of King's Lynn and Boston, and west of Norwich.

  • Shouldham Priory · 2.6 km

    Shouldham Priory was a priory in the village of Shouldham, Norfolk, England. It was founded about 1190, and was surrendered in 1538 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

  • Shouldham · 3.0 km

    Shouldham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 16.04 km2 (6.19 sq mi) and had a population of 608 in 246 households at the 2001 census, the population reducing slightly…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Marham?
Marham is a town in Norfolk, England, in the Breckland local authority.
What is the population of Marham?
Marham has an approximate settlement population of 733.
How deprived is Marham?
The Breckland local authority, which includes Marham, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.