Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. Abbeyfields First School is the nearest published school at 372 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE61 2BA
Morpeth Kirkhill · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Morpeth
- Ward
- Morpeth Kirkhill
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE61 2BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 2
- Latitude
- 55.162035
- Longitude
- -1.703306
- British National Grid easting
- 419,002
- British National Grid northing
- 585,341
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Morpeth Kirkhill · E05016126
- Parish or community
- E04013352
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139730
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 018A · E01027455
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 018 · E02005724
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 NE61
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 43, Abbey Meadows, Morpeth, NE61 2BA | 31 May 2019 | £178,000 |
| 29, Abbey Meadows, Morpeth, NE61 2BA | 1 April 2016 | £215,000 |
| 33, Abbey Meadows, Morpeth, NE61 2BA | 8 May 2007 | £238,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 372 m
Abbeyfields First School
Academy converter
- 938 m
St Roberts Catholic First School, Morpeth
Academy converter
- 999 m
Morpeth Newminster Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 790
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 238
- Anti social behaviour 142
- Shoplifting 113
- Criminal damage and arson 71
- Public order 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- NE61 2 residents
- 10,261
12 female, 17 male
Age bands in NE61 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
1,796 residents
875 residents
2,209 residents
2,968 residents
2,682 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE61 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
NPC CENTRAL NORTHUMBERLAND
MORPETH SURGERY, WELLWAY, MORPETH, NE61 1BJ
ODS code A84036
1.2 km
GAS HOUSE LANE SURGERY
MORPETH NHS CENTRE, THE MOUNT, MORPETH, NE61 1JX
ODS code A84039
1.7 km
GREYSTOKE SURGERY
MORPETH NHS CENTRE, KINGS AVENUE, MORPETH, NE61 1JX
ODS code A84031
1.7 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
Abbey Meadows
BCT · Kirkhill
- 0.1 miles
Abbey Meadows Shops
BCT · Kirkhill
- 0.2 miles
Spelvit Lane west end
BCT · Kirkhill
- 0.2 miles
Abbey Meadows shops
BCT · Kirkhill
- 0.2 miles
Springhill Walk south end
BCT · Kirkhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 018A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,851 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
790 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 238 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.