#1Cringleford
4,686 peopleMean household income·£50,108 after tax·#235 of 2,178 in England and Wales
Cringleford, #1 on this list · Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Norfolk rankings · Income
Towns with the highest household incomes in Norfolk
Cringleford has the highest household incomes of Norfolk’s 52 towns of 2,500+: £70,516 a year before tax, on average (ONS, 2022–23). The typical town here averages £46,512.
ONS small-area income estimates, financial year ending 2023: the mean income of a household before tax (ONS models means, not medians, for small areas), averaged over the town’s neighbourhoods. A described list: no letters. The rank across England and Wales sits beside each figure.
#1£70,516
#T2Costessey
2,608 peopleMean household income·£48,482 after tax·#347 of 2,178 in England and Wales
Queen's Hills
4,465 peopleMean household income·£48,482 after tax·#347 of 2,178 in England and Wales
All 52 towns, ranked
Mean household income, highest first. Small towns sit inside one ONS area of 5,000 to 15,000 people, so their figure is partly their surroundings’. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied). Each rank across England and Wales links to the national list.
52 towns.
#TownMean household incomeAfter taxUK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Norfolk has the highest household income?
Cringleford: its households average £70,516 a year before tax (£50,108 after). Costessey and Queen's Hills follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By mean household income before tax in ONS’s small-area estimates (April 2022 to March 2023), highest first: each neighbourhood’s figure weighted by its share of the town’s residents.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers Norfolk’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Norfolk is on the county page.
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
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County by county
Towns with the highest household incomes, county by county
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Sources: ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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