Walpole Highway

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 23° / 16° · 80% rain
• Tomorrow: 27° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:21

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

4 reported · July 2026▼ 33% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Terrington · Norfolk

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

292 reported road collisions (2024)

104 killed or seriously injured · 397 casualties · 18.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

14 food businesses within 2 miles

• 14 rated 4–5 ★ (14 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£940 average monthly rent▲ 4.2% YoY

• 1 bed £650
• 2 bed £848
• 3 bed £1,051

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · Morrisons (7.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Morrisons (7.5 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Old Hall Country Breaks (6.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

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)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 79 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,430 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

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

82 schools · 19,176 pupils

64 primary · 8 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 28 of 32 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

76inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

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

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 1 listed building within ~1.5 km

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

308 applications decided

89.6% granted · 276 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

James Wild

Conservative

North West Norfolk

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

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

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,690 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Maths Tutor - Part Time, Become a Maths Tutor in Walpole Highway – Flexible & Remote

Source: Adzuna

£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

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

91% low-carbon electricity

Wind 59% · Nuclear 25% · Gas 9% · Biomass 7%

43 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North West Norfolk:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s336 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership332 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office321 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test270 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership252 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Walpole Highway · 0.1 km

  Walpole Highway is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 10.48 km2 (4.05 sq mi) and had a population of 685 in 266 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing t…

• Terrington St John · 2.1 km

  Terrington St John is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village lies to the south of the route of the A47 between Peterborough and Kings Lynn.

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  Fen End Mill, West Walton · 2.5 km

  Fen End Mill, or Dobb's Mill or Sutterby's Mill, is a Grade II listed tower mill in West Walton, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Built in the 18th Century, it was heightened in 1815. The mill worked by wind until 1908. It wa…

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  St Peter's Church, Walpole St Peter · 3.2 km

  St Peter's Church is an active Church of England parish church in Walpole St Peter, Norfolk, England. One of the largest churches in the county, it is known as "the Cathedral of the Fens". It is in the Diocese of Ely.…

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  Tilney St Lawrence · 3.3 km

  Tilney St Lawrence is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk The village is 52.3 miles (84.2 km) west of Norwich, 9.7 miles (15.6 km) south-south-west of King's Lynn and 104 miles (167 km) nor…

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  Walpole, Norfolk · 3.5 km

  Walpole is a civil parish in Norfolk, England. The parish includes the conjoined villages of Walpole St Andrew and Walpole St Peter. Walpole Highway and Walpole Cross Keys are separate civil parishes.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)