Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. Adderlane Academy is the nearest published school at 301 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE42 5HT
Prudhoe South · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Prudhoe
- Ward
- Prudhoe South
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE42
- Postcode sector
- NE42 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE42 5HT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE42
- Postcode sector
- NE42 5
- Latitude
- 54.962046
- Longitude
- -1.838886
- British National Grid easting
- 410,415
- British National Grid northing
- 563,057
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Prudhoe South · E05016139
- Parish or community
- E04010852
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139959
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 038B · E01027498
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 038 · E02005731
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 NE42
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| West Wylam Colliery Post Office, Prudhoe, NE42 5HT | 6 June 2007 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 301 m
Adderlane Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.0 km
Prudhoe Community High School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, Prudhoe
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 595
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 195
- Anti social behaviour 118
- Criminal damage and arson 72
- Shoplifting 45
- Burglary 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE42 5 residents
- 6,829
Age bands in NE42 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
1,142 residents
720 residents
1,496 residents
1,885 residents
1,323 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
6
within 5 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
438 m
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
445 m
PRUDHOE MEDICAL GROUP
KEPWELL BANK TOP, PRUDHOE, NE42 5PW
ODS code A84016
926 m
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
3.3 km
BRANCH END SURGERY
MAIN ROAD, STOCKSFIELD, NE43 7LL
ODS code A84047
4.1 km
CHOPWELL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SOUTH ROAD, CHOPWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7BU
ODS code A85024
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
West Wylam Drive
BCT · West Wylam
- 0.1 miles
West Wylam Drive
BCT · West Wylam
- 0.1 miles
Stonyflat Bank
BCT · West Wylam
- 0.1 miles
Stonyflat Bank
BCT · West Wylam
- 0.1 miles
Stancley Road
BCT · West Wylam
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 038B, 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
9,217 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
595 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.