Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Croftway Academy is the nearest published school at 169 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE24 3HZ
Wensleydale · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Blyth
- Ward
- Wensleydale
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE24 3HZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 3
- Latitude
- 55.120714
- Longitude
- -1.509643
- British National Grid easting
- 431,373
- British National Grid northing
- 580,812
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Wensleydale · E05016150
- Parish or community
- E04012896
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00139603
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 024D · E01027429
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 024 · E02005711
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
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 198, Plessey Road, Blyth, NE24 3HZ | 2 October 2020 | £180,000 |
| 188, Plessey Road, Blyth, NE24 3HZ | 3 December 2014 | £35,000 |
| 190, Plessey Road, Blyth, NE24 3HZ | 30 May 2014 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 169 m
Croftway Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 684 m
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 751 m
Gilbert Ward Academy
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,244
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,051
- Shoplifting 512
- Anti social behaviour 491
- Criminal damage and arson 278
- Public order 227
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- NE24 3 residents
- 12,006
9 female, 8 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE24 3 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
3
within 5 km
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
867 m
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
946 m
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
4.2 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
- 0.0 miles
Croft Park
BCT · Blyth
- 0.0 miles
Croft Park
BCT · Blyth
- 0.2 miles
Rotary Way north end
BCT · Blyth
- 0.2 miles
Rotary Way north end
BCT · Blyth
- 0.2 miles
Broadway
BCT · Blyth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 024D, 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
3,935 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
3,244 published events cover 12 months, averaging 270.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,051 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.