Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hexham Middle School is the nearest published school at 329 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE46 3YX
Hexham North · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hexham North
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE46 3YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 3
- Latitude
- 54.971482
- Longitude
- -2.101516
- British National Grid easting
- 393,600
- British National Grid northing
- 564,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Hexham North · E05016116
- Parish or community
- E04010804
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139914
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 035C · E01027490
- 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
- 329 m
Hexham Middle School
Academy converter
- 340 m
The Sele First School
Community school
- 358 m
St Mary's Catholic First School, Hexham
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 944
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 371
- Anti social behaviour 147
- Public order 90
- Shoplifting 88
- Criminal damage and arson 66
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE46 3 residents
- 3,122
Age bands in NE46 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.5%
337 residents
275 residents
527 residents
927 residents
866 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
453 m
THE SELE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEXHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84033
453 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Abbey and Market Place
BCT · Hexham
- 0.1 miles
Priestpopple
BCT · Hexham
- 0.1 miles
Priestpopple
BCT · Hexham
- 0.1 miles
Tourist Information Centre
BCT · Hexham
- 0.2 miles
Monument
BCT · Hexham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 035C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
16,980 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
944 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 371 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.