Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Slaley First School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE46 1TZ
South Tynedale · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South Tynedale
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE46 1TZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 1
- Latitude
- 54.930176
- Longitude
- -2.054596
- British National Grid easting
- 396,600
- British National Grid northing
- 559,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- South Tynedale · E05016147
- Parish or community
- E04010863
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139989
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 040E · E01027505
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 040 · E02005733
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
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
Slaley First School
Community school
- 3.8 km
Cambian Dilston College
Special post 16 institution
- 4.2 km
Whitley Chapel Church of England First School
Voluntary aided school
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Travellers Rest
BCT · Slaley
- 0.8 miles
Travellers Rest
BCT · Slaley
- 1.0 miles
Hollybush Cottages
BCT · Linnels
- 1.0 miles
Hollybush Cottages
BCT · Linnels
- 1.1 miles
Townhead
BCT · Slaley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 040E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,861 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.