Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Croftway Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE24 3FE
South Blyth · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South Blyth
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE24 3FE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 3
- Latitude
- 55.109438
- Longitude
- -1.501300
- British National Grid easting
- 431,914
- British National Grid northing
- 579,561
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- South Blyth · E05016146
- Parish or community
- E04012896
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00139653
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 026D · E01027440
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 026 · E02005713
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
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.5 km
Croftway Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.6 km
Bede Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.8 km
Newsham Primary School
Community school
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 217
- Anti social behaviour 214
- Shoplifting 139
- Vehicle crime 65
- Criminal damage and arson 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE24 3 residents
- 12,006
Age bands in NE24 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
1,812 residents
1,041 residents
2,700 residents
3,382 residents
2,887 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
3
within 5 km
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
2.2 km
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
2.3 km
NPC ELSDON AVENUE
ELSDON AVENUE, SEATON DELAVAL, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 0BW
ODS code A84619
4.6 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
- 0.1 miles
Links Road
BCT · South Beach
- 0.1 miles
Links Road
BCT · South Beach
- 0.1 miles
Caravan Park
BCT · South Beach
- 0.2 miles
Caravan Park
BCT · South Beach
- 0.3 miles
Fulmar Drive end
BCT · South Beach
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 026D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,618 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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 217 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.