Today the village has a population of around 800. Community facilities include a
Greene King pub called "The Norton Dog" A mobile Post Office is located next to the village hall every weekday afternoon. Norton has a pre-school next to the village hall and a
Church of England voluntary primary school, with children generally moving on to middle school in the nearby communities of
Ixworth and
Beyton. Secondary education is provided at
Thurston Community College. The community is served by three churches, with a
Baptist church and
Salvation Army citadel on Woolpit Road. The
Medieval Church of St Andrew at Norton, located some way from the centre of the village, contains a collection of eight 14th-century
misericords and is believed to stand on the site of a
Saxon church. Norton is served with a bus service to Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket which operates on a daily basis. ==Little Haugh Hall==