North Walsham
TownTown in North Norfolk, East of England.
North Walsham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for North Walsham add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in North Walsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How North Walsham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is North Walsham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in North Walsham at a rate of 69.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 70 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in North Walsham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (422), other crime (162) and anti-social behaviour (126).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in North Walsham was 56.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in North Walsham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so North Walsham has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in North Walsham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Norfolk 015A | 1,463 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.4% |
| North Norfolk 015B | 1,267 | 117.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 61.5% |
| North Norfolk 015C | 1,354 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.5% |
| North Norfolk 015D | 1,552 | 114.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.9% |
| North Norfolk 015E | 1,180 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.5% |
| North Norfolk 016A | 1,529 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.9% |
| North Norfolk 016B | 1,316 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 56.9% |
| North Norfolk 016C | 1,424 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 83.8% |
| North Norfolk 016D | 1,922 | 111.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.6% |
Your MP
- Steff AquaroneLiberal DemocratMP for North Norfolk
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering North Walsham1
Middle areas in North Walsham2
Towns near North Walsham6
North Walsham in brief
North Walsham is a town in North Norfolk, East of England.
About 12,968 people lived in North Walsham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £261,000 in 2025 across 174 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in North Walsham was £261,000 in 2025.
North Walsham had 12,829 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in North Walsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In North Walsham, 79.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.