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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 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°CCloudy

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:20

9h 22m 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

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

No street-level crime recorded here.

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

6 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 6 rated 4–5 ★ (5 top)
  • 0 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

£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: 169.7p · Asda (10.6 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (10.8 km)

5 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)

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
  • 6 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

Your MP

Jerome Mayhew

Conservative

Broadland and Fakenham

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) 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

6,200 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

14 jobs advertised · £34,227 avg

e.g. IT Service Engineer, Technical Support Specialist, Team Member

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

85% low-carbon electricity

Wind 51% · Nuclear 23% · Gas 14% · Biomass 11%

67 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

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

1 GP surgery · 2 pharmacies in NR9

  • Hingham Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Broadland and Fakenham:

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

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 more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.