Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Prudhoe West Academy is the nearest published school at 579 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE42 6NA
Prudhoe North & Wylam · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE42
- Postcode sector
- NE42 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE42 6NA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE42
- Postcode sector
- NE42 6
- Latitude
- 54.965278
- Longitude
- -1.858396
- British National Grid easting
- 409,165
- British National Grid northing
- 563,414
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Prudhoe North & Wylam · E05016138
- Parish or community
- E04010852
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139946
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 038A · E01027497
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 579 m
Prudhoe West Academy
Academy converter
- 646 m
Prudhoe Castle First School
Academy converter
- 762 m
St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, Prudhoe
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 677
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Anti social behaviour 139
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Public order 48
- Burglary 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- NE42 6 residents
- 5,631
0 female, 1 male
Age bands in NE42 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
829 residents
572 residents
1,178 residents
1,831 residents
1,438 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE42 6 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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
PRUDHOE MEDICAL GROUP
KEPWELL BANK TOP, PRUDHOE, NE42 5PW
ODS code A84016
492 m
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
862 m
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
927 m
BRANCH END SURGERY
MAIN ROAD, STOCKSFIELD, NE43 7LL
ODS code A84047
3.2 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Prudhoe Castle
BCT · Low Prudhoe
- 0.1 miles
Prudhoe Castle
BCT · Low Prudhoe
- 0.1 miles
S C A Hygiene
BCT · Low Prudhoe
- 0.1 miles
Princess Way
BCT · Low Prudhoe
- 0.2 miles
Western Avenue
BCT · Low Prudhoe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 038A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,033 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
677 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.