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On Bacon Road, in University & Avenues
What it's like at NR2 3QX: every home that has sold on Bacon Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Bacon Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 3 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Bacon RoadTerraced | Nov 2004 | £101,000 | 91 m² | £1,110/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9, Bacon RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £190,000 | 97 m² | £1,959/m² | 2 |
| 41, Bacon RoadSemi-detached | May 2015 | £202,000 | 63 m² | £3,206/m² | 5 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Norwich, a drive away (3.1 km), with 4.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is St Annes Church, 100 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes 26A, 26); 54 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 8 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is City Academy Norwich, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 35.2 · 2.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Jane Austen College (2.8 km) and Hethersett Academy (5.6 km).
Few families with young children: only 11% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Foodstore, 150 m away; Total E-Cig (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bacon Road Medical Centre (50 m), with Earlham House Post Office & Family Care the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Zengi Turkish Barber is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 2.3 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 11 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Alias Kebab & Pizza is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Farmhouse the nearest pub (500 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 79 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 15 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 15% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Heigham Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Recreation Road Sports Centre (500 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Norwich is 5.9 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 107 km.
32 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Norwich South constituency: Clive Lewis MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,239 (29.4%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Green Party 18%, Conservative 13%, Reform UK 12%.
11 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near NR2 3QX →
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
It's young: 55% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 56% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is University of East Anglia, 1.4 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 3 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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Nearest: Caister Point · about 34 min
Nearest: Beccles Lido · about 37 min
Nearest: Great Yarmouth Racecourse · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.6% | 86.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.4% | 11.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.7% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.