NE61 4LJ
Rothbury · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Ward
- Rothbury
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE61 4LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 4
- Latitude
- 55.256080
- Longitude
- -1.999101
- British National Grid easting
- 400,156
- British National Grid northing
- 595,767
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Rothbury · E05016141
- Parish or community
- E04010801
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139239
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 007D · E01027373
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 007 · E02005705
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
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE61 4 residents
- 1,048
Age bands in NE61 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.9%
132 residents
67 residents
176 residents
346 residents
323 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 2.9 miles
Cottages
BCT · Swindon
- 2.9 miles
Cottages
BCT · Swindon
- 3.2 miles
Tower
BCT · Hepple
- 3.2 miles
Tower
BCT · Hepple
- 3.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Hepple
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 007D, 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
10,796 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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.