Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. Acomb First School is the nearest published school at 201 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE46 4FF
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE46 4FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 4
- Latitude
- 54.994177
- Longitude
- -2.105856
- British National Grid easting
- 393,326
- British National Grid northing
- 566,626
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Hexham North · E05016116
- Parish or community
- E04010726
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139838
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 035A · E01027476
- 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
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 201 m
Acomb First School
Community school
- 2.4 km
The Sele First School
Community school
- 2.5 km
Beaufront First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 39
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Public order 6
- Burglary 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE46 4 residents
- 3,163
Age bands in NE46 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
477 residents
248 residents
583 residents
1,048 residents
1,014 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
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP, HEXHAM PRI, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84024
2.7 km
THE SELE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEXHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84033
2.7 km
HUMSHAUGH & WARK MED GRP
THE SURGERY, HUMSHAUGH, HEXHAM, NE46 4BU
ODS code A84040
4.8 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
- 0.1 miles
The Pant
BCT · Acomb
- 0.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Acomb
- 0.3 miles
Post Office
BCT · Acomb
- 0.3 miles
Millersfield
BCT · Acomb
- 0.4 miles
Morrison Terrace
BCT · Acomb
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 035A, 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
16,771 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
39 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.