Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Azure College is the nearest published school at 168 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE23 8FB
Cramlington South West · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth
- Postcode district
- NE23
- Postcode sector
- NE23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE23 8FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE23
- Postcode sector
- NE23 8
- Latitude
- 55.085683
- Longitude
- -1.616490
- British National Grid easting
- 424,580
- British National Grid northing
- 576,871
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Cramlington South West · E05016107
- Parish or community
- E04012006
- Westminster constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth · E14001183
- Output area
- E00139504
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 029D · E01027412
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 029 · E02005715
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 NE23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 168 m
Azure College
Special post 16 institution
- 753 m
Beaconhill Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Hareside Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 532
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 164
- Anti social behaviour 98
- Shoplifting 62
- Public order 52
- Criminal damage and arson 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE23 8 residents
- 3,373
Age bands in NE23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
665 residents
441 residents
1,073 residents
862 residents
584 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
6
within 5 km
FORUM FAMILY PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, FORUM WAY, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6QN
ODS code A84038
1.6 km
NPC CRAMLINGTON
FORUM WAY, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6QN
ODS code A84025
1.6 km
VILLAGE MEDICAL GROUP
DUDLEY LANE, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6US
ODS code A84030
1.9 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
4.2 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
4.5 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Eastbourne Gardens
BCT · Beacon Hill
- 0.2 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Beacon Hill
- 0.2 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Beacon Hill
- 0.3 miles
Fisher Lane roundabout
BCT · Beacon Hill
- 0.3 miles
Bassington Estate
BCT · Beacon Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 029D, 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
6,484 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
532 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.