Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Morpeth Road Academy is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE24 5JP
Cowpen · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Blyth
- Ward
- Cowpen
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE24 5JP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2016
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 5
- Latitude
- 55.130273
- Longitude
- -1.541473
- British National Grid easting
- 429,336
- British National Grid northing
- 581,862
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Cowpen · E05016101
- Parish or community
- E04012896
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00139575
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 022D · E01027424
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 022 · E02005709
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Windmill Inn, Cowpen Road, Blyth, NE24 5JP | 27 November 2014 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 601 m
Morpeth Road Academy
Academy converter
- 632 m
The Dales School
Community special school
- 743 m
Horton Grange Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,619
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 592
- Anti social behaviour 262
- Criminal damage and arson 169
- Shoplifting 132
- Public order 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE24 5 residents
- 9,274
Age bands in NE24 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,766 residents
1,123 residents
2,204 residents
2,344 residents
1,700 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+
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
1.7 km
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
1.7 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
1.9 km
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
3.7 km
SEATON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
NORHAM ROAD, ASHINGTON, NE63 0NG
ODS code A84028
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Cowpen
- 0.2 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Cowpen
- 0.2 miles
Shops
BCT · Cowpen
- 0.2 miles
Aldi
BCT · Cowpen
- 0.2 miles
Shops
BCT · Cowpen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 022D, 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
1,401 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
- 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,619 published events cover 12 months, averaging 134.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 592 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.