NE48 1BL

Bellingham · Northumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Bellingham
Local authority: Northumberland
Constituency: Hexham
Postcode district: NE48
Postcode sector: NE48 1

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
NE48 1AU	644 m
NE48 1BX	692 m
NE48 1BE	1.5 km
NE48 1BH	1.7 km
NE48 1BQ	1.9 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: NE48 1BL
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 December 1981
Postcode area: NE
Postcode district: NE48
Postcode sector: NE48 1
Latitude: 55.177234
Longitude: -2.485157
British National Grid easting: 369,200
British National Grid northing: 587,100

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North East · E12000001
Local authority district: Northumberland · E06000057
Electoral ward: Bellingham · E05016093
Parish or community: E04010782
Westminster constituency: Hexham · E14001285
Output area: E00140008
Lower layer super output area: Northumberland 019C · E01027503
Middle layer super output area: Northumberland 019 · E02005727

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 NE48

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 1
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Vehicle crime 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
NE48 1 residents: 677

Age bands in NE48 1

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 11.7%
Age 15 to 24: 5.9%
Age 25 to 44: 14.8%
Age 45 to 64: 33.9%
Age 65 and over: 33.6%

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

Tower Knowe Ferry Landing

FER · Tower Knowe
0.4 miles
Tower Knowe Ferry Landing

FBT · Tower Knowe
0.4 miles
Visitor centre road end

BCT · Tower Knowe
0.5 miles
Visitor centre road end

BCT · Tower Knowe
0.5 miles
Belvedere Ferry Landing

FBT · Belvedere
1.0 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 019C, 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

4 of 10

Overall England rank

11,268 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 7 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

1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.