NR5 crime rate and statistics

The NR5 postcode district, in the NR (Norwich) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,788 street-crime records for NR5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 86.5 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

2,788

Latest month (August 2026)

221

Year-on-year

+0.8%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 235
October 2025 258
November 2025 255
December 2025 204
January 2026 225
February 2026 209
March 2026 245
April 2026 184
May 2026 249
June 2026 257
July 2026 246
August 2026 221

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.

NR5

86.5

Norfolk Constabulary

74.3

2,788 records and 32,244 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 NR5 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 NR5

Published street-crime records in NR5, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of NR5: the west 1,398, the centre 782, the south 349, the north-west 305, the south-east 303, the south-west 255, the east 232.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of NR5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and NR5'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 NR5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore NR5 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for NR5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,161
2022 3,145
2023 3,053
2024 2,853
2025 2,791
2026 (part year) 1,836

Is NR5 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for NR5 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in NR5 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

NR5's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Norfolk Constabulary (99.7%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.1%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in NR5

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

Sector Street-crime records
NR5 0 861
NR5 8 1,245
NR5 9 682

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 32,244 Census 2021 residents of NR5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 33.1% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 9.1% 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 NR5 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) £250,000 (152)
2025 £245,000 (281)
2024 £255,000 (278)
2023 £260,000 (249)
2022 £265,500 (342)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £338,000 (47) £239,000 (42) £220,000 (48) £149,000 (15)
2025 £310,000 (111) £242,500 (85) £213,000 (61) £156,500 (24)
2024 £320,000 (90) £255,000 (90) £215,000 (83) £150,000 (15)
2023 £349,000 (88) £250,000 (86) £235,000 (53) £139,750 (22)
2022 £333,275 (114) £263,500 (114) £230,000 (86) £150,000 (28)

Schools and colleges

13 open establishments with a postcode in NR5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 13 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Earlham Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Chapel Break Infant School Primary Community school
Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery School Primary Voluntary aided school
Costessey Primary School Primary Academy converter
Henderson Green Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Norwich Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
St Michael's VA Junior School Primary Voluntary aided school
Valley Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
West Earlham Infant and Nursery School Primary Community school
West Earlham Junior School Primary Community school
Ormiston Victory Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Banks House School – Other independent special school
Future Education – Other independent special school

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
High1
Medium1
Low4
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 618 postcodes in NR5 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
Gigabit87.5%97.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)97.7%99.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. NR5 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/nr5/

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