Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 3 secondary schools. Mowden Hall School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE43 7AH
Stocksfield & Bywell · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stocksfield & Bywell
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE43
- Postcode sector
- NE43 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE43 7AH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE43
- Postcode sector
- NE43 7
- Latitude
- 54.967008
- Longitude
- -1.923444
- British National Grid easting
- 405,000
- British National Grid northing
- 563,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Stocksfield & Bywell · E05016149
- Parish or community
- E04010754
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139870
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 036A · E01027483
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 036 · E02005729
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 NE43
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.7 km
Mowden Hall School
Other independent school
- 2.2 km
Broomley First School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Mickley First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE43 7 residents
- 4,445
Age bands in NE43 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
646 residents
385 residents
745 residents
1,395 residents
1,278 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
BRANCH END SURGERY
MAIN ROAD, STOCKSFIELD, NE43 7LL
ODS code A84047
2.8 km
PRUDHOE MEDICAL GROUP
KEPWELL BANK TOP, PRUDHOE, NE42 5PW
ODS code A84016
4.5 km
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
South Lodge
BCT · Stelling
- 0.8 miles
Shaw House
BCT · Newton
- 0.8 miles
Shaw House
BCT · Newton
- 0.9 miles
Nursery
BCT · Ovington
- 0.9 miles
Nursery
BCT · Ovington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 036A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,186 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.