Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Croftway Academy is the nearest published school at 639 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE24 9AE
Wensleydale · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wensleydale
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE24 9AE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2006
- Terminated
- 1 September 2009
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE24
- Postcode sector
- NE24 9
- Latitude
- 55.127603
- Longitude
- -1.506798
- British National Grid easting
- 431,549
- British National Grid northing
- 581,580
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
- E00139670
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 023E · E01027442
- 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
- 17
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 639 m
Croftway Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 834 m
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Gilbert Ward Academy
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,583
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 865
- Anti social behaviour 376
- Shoplifting 355
- Criminal damage and arson 223
- Public order 198
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
RAILWAY MEDICAL GROUP
GATACRE STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1HD
ODS code A84009
493 m
MARINE MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THOROTON STREET, BLYTH, NE24 1DX
ODS code A84014
521 m
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
4.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bus station
BCQ · Blyth
- 0.0 miles
Bus station
BCT · Blyth
- 0.0 miles
Bus station
BCT · Blyth
- 0.0 miles
Bus Station
BCT · Blyth
- 0.0 miles
Bus station
BCT · Blyth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 023E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,583 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
2,583 published events cover 12 months, averaging 215.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 865 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.