Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Blyth Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE22 6AF
Newsham · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newsham
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE22 6AF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 6
- Latitude
- 55.114489
- Longitude
- -1.554760
- British National Grid easting
- 428,500
- British National Grid northing
- 580,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Newsham · E05016130
- Parish or community
- E04012896
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00139581
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 025C · E01027427
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 025 · E02005712
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
Explore NE22
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.1 km
The Blyth Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
New Delaval Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Horton Grange Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 817
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 222
- Shoplifting 166
- Anti social behaviour 140
- Criminal damage and arson 89
- Public order 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE22 6 residents
- 6,047
Age bands in NE22 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
944 residents
572 residents
1,298 residents
1,783 residents
1,132 residents
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
2.9 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
3.0 km
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
3.0 km
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
3.4 km
VILLAGE MEDICAL GROUP
DUDLEY LANE, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6US
ODS code A84030
3.9 km
FORUM FAMILY PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, FORUM WAY, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6QN
ODS code A84038
4.1 km
NPC CRAMLINGTON
FORUM WAY, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6QN
ODS code A84025
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Bishopdale Avenue
BCT · Cowpen
- 0.7 miles
Blyth Bebside Railway Station
RSE · Bebside
- 0.7 miles
Blyth Bebside Rail Station
RLY · Blyth
- 0.8 miles
Bebside Rail Stn Car Park
BCT · Bebside
- 0.8 miles
Swaledale Avenue
BCT · Cowpen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 025C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,869 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
817 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 222 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.