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Morley St Peter

Morley St Peter is a village in Norfolk, England, with a population of around 800. It has 1 restaurant and café, 2 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Spooner Row, 2.6 km away. In June 2026, there were around 5 recorded street crimes, 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 Morley St Peter 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
Mid 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

8°CClear

  • Today: 11° / 8° · 30% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:20

9h 23m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

53US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stanford-le-Hope Roadside, 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

2 reported · August 2026▲ 100% YoY

  • Other theft1
  • Theft from the person1

Neighbourhood team: Wymondham · 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 Wymo…
  • 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 Wymo…

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

62 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 56 rated 4–5 ★ (51 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Spooner Row (3.0 km)
  • 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Spooner Row (3.0 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 174.9p · Asda (9.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · Asda (9.5 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

6 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Shell Attleborough (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches8

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 & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,200 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Depot Manager

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 · 2 pharmacies in NR18

  • Wymondham Medical Partnership
  • Windmill Surgery
  • Ogden Court

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Mid Norfolk:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Morley Old Hall · 1.0 km

    Morley Old Hall is a Grade I-listed moated manor house built in the sixteenth century in the village of Morley Saint Peter, some twelve miles from the cathedral city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

  • Wymondham College · 1.2 km

    Wymondham College is a co-educational day and boarding school located in Morley, near Wymondham in Norfolk, England. As a former grammar school with academy status, it is one of England's state boarding schools and th…

  • Morley St Botolph · 2.2 km

    Morley St Botolph is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Morley, in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is situated 4 km south-west of the town of Wymondham and 23 km…

  • Morley, Norfolk · 2.3 km

    Morley is a civil parish in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It includes the villages of Morley St Botolph and Morley St Peter. It covers an area of 8.21 km2 (3.17 sq mi) and had a popula…

  • Besthorpe, Norfolk · 2.6 km

    Besthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Attleborough on the A11 road. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 561, increasing to…

  • Attleborough · 2.7 km

    Attleborough is a market town and civil parish located on the A11 road between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland and has an area of 21.9 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi).

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Morley St Peter?
Morley St Peter is a town in Norfolk, England, in the Breckland local authority.
How deprived is Morley St Peter?
The Breckland local authority, which includes Morley St Peter, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.