Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Howard House School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE61 6GX
Ponteland East & Stannington · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE61 6GX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 6
- Latitude
- 55.129014
- Longitude
- -1.659029
- British National Grid easting
- 421,841
- British National Grid northing
- 581,679
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Ponteland East & Stannington · E05016134
- Parish or community
- E04010866
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00190119
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 015D · E01027473
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 015 · E02005722
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
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.3 km
Howard House School
Other independent special school
- 2.4 km
Stannington First School
Community school
- 3.2 km
Kyloe House
Secure units
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 39
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Other theft 9
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Public order 2
- Shoplifting 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE61 6 residents
- 6,365
Age bands in NE61 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.4%
965 residents
566 residents
1,350 residents
1,927 residents
1,390 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
3.9 km
GUIDEPOST MEDICAL GROUP
NORTH PARADE, CHOPPINGTON, CHOPPINGTON, NE62 5RA
ODS code A84020
4.7 km
NPC CENTRAL NORTHUMBERLAND
MORPETH SURGERY, WELLWAY, MORPETH, NE61 1BJ
ODS code A84036
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Railway crossing
BCT · Stannington Station
- 0.1 miles
Railway crossing
BCT · Stannington Station
- 0.3 miles
Netherton Wood
BCT · Stannington Station
- 0.3 miles
Netherton Wood
BCT · Stannington Station
- 0.3 miles
Nursery
BCT · Stannington Station
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 015D, 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
25,044 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
39 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.