Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. Acomb 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 4WX
Humshaugh · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Humshaugh
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE46 4WX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2003
- Terminated
- 1 June 2004
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE46
- Postcode sector
- NE46 4
- Latitude
- 55.010490
- Longitude
- -2.111434
- British National Grid easting
- 392,972
- British National Grid northing
- 568,442
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Humshaugh · E05016120
- Parish or community
- E04010874
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00139941
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 040D · E01027495
- 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
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.9 km
Acomb First School
Community school
- 2.8 km
Humshaugh Church of England First School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.5 km
Beaufront First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 4
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
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 straight-line
HUMSHAUGH & WARK MED GRP
THE SURGERY, HUMSHAUGH, HEXHAM, NE46 4BU
ODS code A84040
3.0 km
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP
BURN BRAE MEDICAL GROUP, HEXHAM PRI, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84024
4.6 km
THE SELE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEXHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CORBRIDGE ROAD, HEXHAM, NE46 1QJ
ODS code A84033
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Hadrian Hotel
BCT · Wall
- 0.9 miles
Wall Garage
BCT · Wall
- 1.2 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Brunton
- 1.2 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Brunton
- 1.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Acomb
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 040D, 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
16,394 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.