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Weston Green

Weston Green is a settlement in Norfolk, England. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Weston Green area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Breckland area is around the average in England (IoD2019). 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 crime87
Home affordability56
Affordable rents60
Good schools23
Life expectancy57
Low deprivation40
Employment68
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

16°COvercast

  • Today: 23° / 13° · 53% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:23Sunset 19:20

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Crime

1 reported · July 2026

  • Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Taverham and Drayton · 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 Tave…
  • 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 Tave…

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

Road safety

263 reported road collisions (2024)

86 killed or seriously injured · 365 casualties · 18.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

6 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Wymondham (13.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£273,851 average 2.7% YoY

Across Breckland · to 2026-06

Detached£374,751
Semi-detached£244,049
Terraced£195,663
Flat£110,304

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£925 average monthly rent 3% YoY

  • 1 bed £663
  • 2 bed £843
  • 3 bed £1,041

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

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 165.7p · Asda (10.6 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (10.8 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

2 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Copper Beech Pub & Restaurant (5.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Population

141,476 residents in Breckland · 108/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 127 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

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

74 schools · 17,555 pupils

55 primary · 7 secondary · 12 other

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

66inspected 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

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
  • 6 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

191 applications decided

89% granted · 170 granted, 21 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

Conservative majority

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

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

6,110 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

32 jobs advertised · £33,061 avg

e.g. IT Service Engineer, Become a Maths Tutor in Weston Green – Flexible & Remote, Online History Tutor - Part Time

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

Grid electricity

82% low-carbon electricity

Wind 42% · Nuclear 21% · Gas 18% · Solar 14%

78 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.4 yrs 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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Broadland and Fakenham:

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

Notable places nearby

  • RAF Attlebridge · 0.8 km

    Royal Air Force Attlebridge or simply RAF Attlebridge is a former Royal Air Force station located near Attlebridge and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

  • Weston Longville · 1.7 km

    Weston Longville is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximately 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Norwich. Its name is derived from the Manor of Longaville in Normandy, France, which owned the local lan…

  • Honingham Hall · 2.0 km

    Honingham Hall was a large country house at Honingham in Norfolk.

  • Honingham · 2.6 km

    Honingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

  • Honingham Windmill · 3.0 km

    Honingham Windmill is a tower mill in Honingham, Norfolk, United Kingdom. It was built between 1826 and 1834 and worked by wind until the 1890s. The derelict mill was converted to residential accommodation in 1981.

  • Ringland, Norfolk · 3.1 km

    Ringland is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, and in the valley of the River Wensum, approximately 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Norwich. Parts of the Wensum valley within the parish constitute a Site of…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Weston Green?
Weston Green is a town in Norfolk, England, in the Breckland local authority.
How deprived is Weston Green?
The Breckland local authority, which includes Weston Green, is around the average in England on the IoD2019.