Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 3 secondary schools. Morpeth First School is the nearest published school at 575 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE61 2UX
Morpeth Stobhill · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Morpeth Stobhill
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE61 2UX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 2
- Latitude
- 55.159818
- Longitude
- -1.682951
- British National Grid easting
- 420,300
- British National Grid northing
- 585,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Morpeth Stobhill · E05016128
- Parish or community
- E04013352
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139763
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 018D · E01027460
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 3
- 575 m
Morpeth First School
Community school
- 617 m
Morpeth Stobhillgate First School
Academy converter
- 648 m
Collingwood School & Media Arts College
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 904
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 280
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Shoplifting 114
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Public order 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE61 2 residents
- 10,261
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
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
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
1.3 km
GREYSTOKE SURGERY
MORPETH NHS CENTRE, KINGS AVENUE, MORPETH, NE61 1JX
ODS code A84031
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Railway station
BCT · Morpeth
- 0.1 miles
Railway station
BCT · Morpeth
- 0.1 miles
Shields Road
BCT · Stobhillgate
- 0.2 miles
Railway station
RSE · Morpeth
- 0.2 miles
Morpeth Rail Station
BCT · Morpeth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 018D, 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
31,288 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
904 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 280 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.