NR32 1PT East Suffolk

Postcode no longer in use, introduced January 1980. Ward: Harbour & Normanston. Region: East of England.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

House prices and rents in East Suffolk

A typical home in East Suffolk cost £277,949 in August 2026, 2.3% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£403,830
Semi-detached£265,470
Terraced£206,275
Flat or maisonette£140,565
Bought by a first-time buyer£227,188

Private renters in East Suffolk paid £848 a month on average in September 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£607
Two bedrooms£798
Three bedrooms£947
Four or more bedrooms£1,350

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in East Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,335 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,557£1,816£2,075£2,335£2,854£3,372£3,891£4,670

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (78% of about 920 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the postcode, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Ness point Wind Turbine 1 East Suffolk W14512/1 Wind 1 turbine 2.3 MW Operational Dec 2004 560 m (0.3 miles)
Ness Point East Suffolk DC/21/5329/FUL Hydrogen 3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jan 2022 600 m (0.4 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 550 m (0.3 miles) from the postcode (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Kelling Hard to Lowestoft none (the line is held)580 m (0.4 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Kelling Hard to Lowestoft none (the line is held)580 m (0.4 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Kelling Hard to Lowestoft up to 27 m550 m (0.3 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 143 times, for 194 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into North Sea Via Waveney Dock, North Sea, North Sea Via Outer Harbour, Lake Lothing and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Lowestoft Marina Cso Anglian Water North Sea Via Waveney Dock 12 5 490 m (0.3 miles)
Ness Point Pumping Station Anglian Water North Sea 16 14 770 m (0.5 miles)
Ness Point Pumping Station Anglian Water North Sea 3 57 770 m (0.5 miles)
Ness Point Pumping Station Anglian Water North Sea 56 104 770 m (0.5 miles)
Royal Norfolk &Amp; Suffolk Yacht Club Anglian Water North Sea Via Outer Harbour 2 0 800 m (0.5 miles)
Lowestoft St John's Road Cso Anglian Water Lake Lothing 7 6 860 m (0.5 miles)
Lowestoft Belvedere Road Cso Anglian Water Inner Harbour to North Sea 47 8 950 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 470 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Hamilton Road Lowestoft, Suffolk 1977 to 1989 Household 470 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLowestoft 468,000 journeys in 2024–25620 m (0.4 miles)
Oulton Broad North 137,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Oulton Broad South 60,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tennyson Road Lowestoft70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lowestoft260 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks630 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI38.6 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN123 km (77 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alexandra & Crestview Surgeries Good Oct 202470 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alexandra Road Pharmacy70 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colosseum Dental (Williams)200 m
HospitalLowestoft Hospital0 m
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Britten Court Good Aug 2023590 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationLowestoft Police Station220 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 150 London Road North Halifax210 m

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 470 m (0.3 miles) from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Scribbles Day Nursery (Seashore) NR32 1JH Full day care 90 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 470 m (0.3 miles)
Rainbow Day Nursery NR32 2NY Full day care 48 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 590 m (0.4 miles)
YMCA Childcare Water Lane NR32 2NH Sessional day care 51 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 620 m (0.4 miles)
YMCA Childcare - St Margaret's Road NR32 4HW Full day care 51 Good (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 780 m (0.5 miles)
Trinity Nursery NR32 4HU Sessional day care 24 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 830 m (0.5 miles)
EA Gymnastics - Lowestoft NR32 2EP Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 229 childminders and 46 home childcarers (nannies) in Suffolk. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,770 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.0 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²290 m
Playing fieldDenes Recreation Ground 3.5 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 36, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 60 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
36, High StreetListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht ClubListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) south
Belle Vue ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Ness PointWetland710 m (0.4 miles) east
South BasinTidal water840 m (0.5 miles) south
Lowestoft CliffCliff or slope1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Leathes' HamLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Foxburrow WoodWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Holly HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

19 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 5 serious and 14 slight, in which 5 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a pedestrian; 6 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 21% happened in the dark, and 26% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202150
202230
202372
202411
202532
The most recent 10 of 19
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
23 Aug 2025 21:10 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
6 Feb 2025 17:59 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Jan 2025 17:25 Serious 1 person A12, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
22 Jul 2024 19:49 Serious 1 person A12, 30 mph Daylight
6 Dec 2023 11:55 Slight 1 person A47, 30 mph Wet road
28 Nov 2023 11:05 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
27 Nov 2023 10:14 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
11 Oct 2023 08:00 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
16 Jun 2023 17:40 Slight 1 person A12, 30 mph Daylight
2 May 2023 19:45 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A47, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A47 between Waveney Road and A1144 St Peter's Street, with 13,271 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 490 m (0.3 miles) from the postcode.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A12 A1144 St Peter's Street to Jubilee Way Rndbt 11,084 estimated; counted 2018 1% 220 m
A47 Waveney Road to A1144 St Peter's Street 13,271 estimated; counted 2021 2% 490 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for East Suffolk: see them on the East Suffolk page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 302 residents in 144 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age3940
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle33%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)13%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.