Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. Bedlington Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE22 7BB
Sleekburn · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedlington
- Ward
- Sleekburn
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE22 7BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 7
- Latitude
- 55.144973
- Longitude
- -1.548412
- British National Grid easting
- 428,883
- British National Grid northing
- 583,495
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Sleekburn · E05016145
- Parish or community
- E04010773
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00140233
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 020G · E01027552
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 020 · E02005740
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
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Cottages, 3, Havelock Villas, East Sleekburn, Bedlington, NE22 7BB | 24 July 2015 | £150,000 |
| 3, Havelock Villas, East Sleekburn, Bedlington, NE22 7BB | 25 June 2015 | £212,000 |
| 5, Havelock Villas, East Sleekburn, Bedlington, NE22 7BB | 7 May 2015 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.2 km
Bedlington Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Bedlington Station Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Cambois Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 394
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 159
- Anti social behaviour 70
- Public order 40
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Shoplifting 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- NE22 7 residents
- 3,499
10 female, 7 male
Age bands in NE22 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
525 residents
320 residents
679 residents
912 residents
845 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE22 7 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
6
within 5 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
1.1 km
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
2.8 km
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
2.9 km
SEATON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
NORHAM ROAD, ASHINGTON, NE63 0NG
ODS code A84028
3.0 km
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
3.5 km
GUIDEPOST MEDICAL GROUP
NORTH PARADE, CHOPPINGTON, CHOPPINGTON, NE62 5RA
ODS code A84020
3.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bypass
BCT · East Sleekburn
- 0.1 miles
Bypass
BCT · East Sleekburn
- 0.5 miles
Sandfield Road
BCT · Cambois
- 0.6 miles
Sandfield Road
BCT · Cambois
- 0.6 miles
St John's Road
BCT · Bedlington Station
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 020G, 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
5,117 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
394 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 159 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.