NR1 crime rate and statistics

The NR1 postcode district, in the NR (Norwich) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 5,248 street-crime records for NR1 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 11.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 180.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 74.3 for Norfolk Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

5,248

Latest month (August 2026)

432

Year-on-year

-11.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 459
October 2025 443
November 2025 436
December 2025 405
January 2026 348
February 2026 406
March 2026 475
April 2026 449
May 2026 476
June 2026 425
July 2026 494
August 2026 432

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

NR1

180.8

Norfolk Constabulary

74.3

5,248 records and 29,026 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of NR1 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in NR1

Published street-crime records in NR1, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of NR1: the west 2,095, the north-east 952, the north-west 815, the north 682, the south-west 681, the centre 678, the south 453, the east 133, the south-east 90.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of NR1's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and NR1's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of NR1 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore NR1 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for NR1 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 5,560
2022 6,584
2023 6,004
2024 5,991
2025 5,550
2026 (part year) 3,505

Is NR1 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for NR1 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in NR1 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

NR1's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Norfolk Constabulary (99.7%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.1%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in NR1

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
NR1 1 2,045
NR1 2 611
NR1 3 1,563
NR1 4 1,029

Council areas

NR1 is mostly in the Norwich council area, and also covers parts of the Broadland council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 29,026 Census 2021 residents of NR1.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 17.6% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 5.3% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About NR1 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £221,000 (236)
2025 £220,000 (469)
2024 £218,000 (454)
2023 £210,000 (447)
2022 £220,800 (589)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £425,000 (15) £275,000 (36) £245,000 (85) £158,325 (100)
2025 £350,000 (25) £260,000 (81) £242,500 (147) £154,000 (216)
2024 £405,775 (31) £250,000 (70) £250,000 (128) £160,000 (225)
2023 £296,500 (17) £255,000 (68) £240,000 (131) £165,000 (231)
2022 £358,000 (33) £292,500 (76) £249,000 (210) £167,750 (270)

Schools and colleges

11 open establishments with a postcode in NR1, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 11 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Charles Darwin Primary School Primary Free schools
Edith Cavell Academy and Nursery Primary Academy sponsor led
Lakenham Primary School Primary Foundation school
Lionwood Infant and Nursery School Primary Academy converter
Lionwood Junior School Primary Academy converter
The Free School Norwich Primary Free schools
Hewett Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Notre Dame High School, Norwich Secondary Academy converter
Norwich School – Other independent school
Norwich Steiner School – Other independent school
The Wherry School – Free schools special

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High8
Medium13
Low37
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 718 postcodes in NR1 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit66.6%81.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)93.7%99.2%

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CrimeMapsUK. NR1 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/nr1/

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