Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hexham Priory School is the nearest published school at 915 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE46 4JL
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 4JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2017
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 4
- Latitude
- 54.977115
- Longitude
- -2.091235
- British National Grid easting
- 394,259
- British National Grid northing
- 564,726
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Hexham North · E05016116
- Parish or community
- E04010858
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139984
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 043C · E01027504
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 043 · E02007107
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
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 4
- 915 m
Hexham Priory School
Academy special converter
- 1.1 km
Hexham Middle School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Hexham First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 866
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 352
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Shoplifting 88
- Public order 86
- Criminal damage and arson 58
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP, HEXHAM PRI, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84024
774 m
THE SELE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEXHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84033
774 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Industrial Estate
BCT · Bridge End at Hexham
- 0.2 miles
Industrial Estate
BCT · Bridge End at Hexham
- 0.3 miles
Hexham Rail Station
RLY · Hexham
- 0.3 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Hexham
- 0.3 miles
Hexham Station
RSE · Hexham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 043C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,529 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 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
- 3 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
866 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 352 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.