Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Malvin's Close Academy is the nearest published school at 619 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE24 1JH
Croft · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Croft
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE24 1JH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 1
- Latitude
- 55.130520
- Longitude
- -1.516941
- British National Grid easting
- 430,900
- British National Grid northing
- 581,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Croft · E05016109
- Parish or community
- E04012896
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00139523
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 023B · E01027415
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 023 · E02005710
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 NE24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 619 m
Malvin's Close Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 709 m
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 887 m
Gilbert Ward Academy
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,964
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 992
- Shoplifting 428
- Anti social behaviour 402
- Criminal damage and arson 278
- Public order 216
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE24 1 residents
- 3,481
Age bands in NE24 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
685 residents
463 residents
931 residents
1,051 residents
719 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
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
258 m
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
320 m
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hodgson's Road
BCT · North Farm
- 0.1 miles
Hodgson's Road
BCT · North Farm
- 0.2 miles
Regent Street north end
BCT · Blyth
- 0.2 miles
Regent Street north end
BCT · Blyth
- 0.2 miles
Regent Street south end
BCT · Blyth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 023B, 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
546 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,964 published events cover 12 months, averaging 247 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 992 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.