Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Wylam First School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE15 0HX
Ponteland South with Heddon · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE15
- Postcode sector
- NE15 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE15 0HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE15
- Postcode sector
- NE15 0
- Latitude
- 54.992232
- Longitude
- -1.821152
- British National Grid easting
- 411,542
- British National Grid northing
- 566,419
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Ponteland South with Heddon · E05016136
- Parish or community
- E04010797
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139705
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 034A · E01027449
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 034 · E02005726
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
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Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Bluebell Cottages, Heddon On The Wall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 0HX | 19 July 2006 | £350,000 |
| 2, Bluebell Cottages, Heddon On The Wall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 0HX | 17 November 1999 | £96,000 |
| 1, Bluebell Cottages, Heddon On The Wall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 0HX | 30 June 1998 | £75,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.5 km
Wylam First School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Heddon-on-the-Wall, St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Adderlane Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 34
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Other crime 4
- Vehicle crime 4
- Other theft 3
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- NE15 0 residents
- 2,207
4 female, 4 male
Age bands in NE15 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
297 residents
246 residents
543 residents
606 residents
625 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE15 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
3.7 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
3.7 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
3.8 km
PRUDHOE MEDICAL GROUP
KEPWELL BANK TOP, PRUDHOE, NE42 5PW
ODS code A84016
4.0 km
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CT, TILLMOUTH PK RD,THROCKLEY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 9PA
ODS code A86026
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Houghton Moor Cottages
BCT · Close House
- 0.0 miles
Houghton Moor Cottages
BCT · Close House
- 0.3 miles
Close House Lodge Gates
BCT · Close House
- 0.5 miles
Holeyn Hall crossroads
BCT · Rudchester
- 0.5 miles
Holeyn Hall Crossroads
BCT · Rudchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 034A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,061 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
34 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.