Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Linton Primary School is the nearest published school at 454 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE61 3BQ
Longhirst · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Longhirst
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE61 3BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 3
- Latitude
- 55.212563
- Longitude
- -1.591384
- British National Grid easting
- 426,100
- British National Grid northing
- 591,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Longhirst · E05016122
- Parish or community
- E04010823
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139766
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 011C · E01027463
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 011 · E02005721
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
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 454 m
Linton Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Ellington Primary School
Community school
- 3.4 km
Gust Independent School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 46
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Public order 7
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE61 3 residents
- 4,716
Age bands in NE61 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
706 residents
398 residents
902 residents
1,447 residents
1,293 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
NPC FELTON & WIDDRINGTON
GRANGE ROAD, WIDDRINGTON, MORPETH, NE61 5LX
ODS code A84029
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Orchard View
BCT · Linton
- 1.1 miles
Plough
BCT · Ellington
- 1.1 miles
Plough
BCT · Ellington
- 1.2 miles
Hagg House Farm
BCT · Ellington
- 1.2 miles
Hagg House Farm
BCT · Ellington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 011C, 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
26,133 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
46 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.