Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 3 secondary schools. Mowden Hall School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE43 7AN
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 7AN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE43
- Postcode sector
- NE43 7
- Latitude
- 54.971577
- Longitude
- -1.917140
- British National Grid easting
- 405,403
- British National Grid northing
- 564,109
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
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
Mowden Hall School
Other independent school
- 2.6 km
Broomley First School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Ovingham Middle School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 4
- Public order 3
- Other theft 2
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
4
within 5 km
BRANCH END SURGERY
MAIN ROAD, STOCKSFIELD, NE43 7LL
ODS code A84047
3.0 km
PRUDHOE MEDICAL GROUP
KEPWELL BANK TOP, PRUDHOE, NE42 5PW
ODS code A84016
4.2 km
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
4.7 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
4.7 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
- 0.4 miles
South Lodge
BCT · Stelling
- 0.5 miles
Nursery
BCT · Ovington
- 0.5 miles
Nursery
BCT · Ovington
- 0.5 miles
South Lodge
BCT · Stelling
- 0.6 miles
Overdene
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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.