Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Meadowdale Academy is the nearest published school at 156 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE22 6DQ
Bedlington West · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bedlington West
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE22 6DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 6
- Latitude
- 55.134445
- Longitude
- -1.609435
- British National Grid easting
- 425,000
- British National Grid northing
- 582,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Bedlington West · E05016092
- Parish or community
- E04010880
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00140077
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 021E · E01027522
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 021 · E02005741
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
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 156 m
Meadowdale Academy
Academy converter
- 350 m
St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy
Academy converter
- 469 m
St Bede's Catholic Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 865
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 305
- Shoplifting 143
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Public order 80
- Criminal damage and arson 80
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
730 m
GUIDEPOST MEDICAL GROUP
NORTH PARADE, CHOPPINGTON, CHOPPINGTON, NE62 5RA
ODS code A84020
2.6 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ridge Farm
BCT · Bedlington
- 0.2 miles
Meadowdale
BCT · Red House Farm
- 0.2 miles
Ridge Farm
BCT · Bedlington
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Red House Farm
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Red House Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 021E, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,391 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
865 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 305 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.