Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hexham Middle School is the nearest published school at 386 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE46 1AU
Hexham East · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hexham East
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE46 1AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2005
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 1
- Latitude
- 54.965346
- Longitude
- -2.098955
- British National Grid easting
- 393,763
- British National Grid northing
- 563,417
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Hexham East · E05016115
- Parish or community
- E04010804
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139932
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 035G · E01027494
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 035 · E02005730
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 NE46
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 3
- 386 m
Hexham Middle School
Academy converter
- 635 m
St Mary's Catholic First School, Hexham
Academy converter
- 682 m
Hexham First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 887
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 330
- Anti social behaviour 140
- Shoplifting 88
- Public order 87
- Criminal damage and arson 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE46 1 residents
- 4,244
Age bands in NE46 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
681 residents
384 residents
915 residents
1,255 residents
1,332 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP, HEXHAM PRI, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84024
630 m
THE SELE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEXHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84033
630 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Middle School
BCT · Hexham
- 0.2 miles
Green Bank
BCT · Hexham
- 0.3 miles
Priestpopple
BCT · Hexham
- 0.3 miles
Priestpopple
BCT · Hexham
- 0.4 miles
General Hospital Main Entrance
BCT · Hexham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 035G, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,888 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
887 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 330 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.