Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Cambois Primary School is the nearest published school at 506 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE22 7BW
Sleekburn · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 7BW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2008
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE22
- Postcode sector
- NE22 7
- Latitude
- 55.143763
- Longitude
- -1.525771
- British National Grid easting
- 430,327
- British National Grid northing
- 583,370
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
- E00140231
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 506 m
Cambois Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Morpeth Road Academy
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Malvin's Close Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 476
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 189
- Anti social behaviour 76
- Criminal damage and arson 47
- Public order 34
- Shoplifting 33
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE22 7 residents
- 3,499
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
1.8 km
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
1.9 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
2.5 km
SEATON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
NORHAM ROAD, ASHINGTON, NE63 0NG
ODS code A84028
3.8 km
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
former Power Station
BCT · Cambois
- 0.0 miles
former Power Station
BCT · Cambois
- 0.2 miles
Dock
BCT · Cambois
- 0.2 miles
Dock
BCT · Cambois
- 0.2 miles
Ridley Terrace
BCT · Cambois
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
476 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 189 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.