Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Red Row Primary School is the nearest published school at 656 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE61 6PD
Druridge Bay · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Druridge Bay
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE61 6PD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE61
- Postcode sector
- NE61 6
- Latitude
- 55.279990
- Longitude
- -1.601711
- British National Grid easting
- 425,400
- British National Grid northing
- 598,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Druridge Bay · E05016110
- Parish or community
- E04010774
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00190044
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 008B · E01027444
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 008 · E02005720
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
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 656 m
Red Row Primary School
Community school
- 2.9 km
Broomhill Primary School
Community school
- 4.8 km
Grange View Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 121
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Shoplifting 17
- Public order 13
- Other theft 6
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
NPC FELTON & WIDDRINGTON
GRANGE ROAD, WIDDRINGTON, MORPETH, NE61 5LX
ODS code A84029
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Market Place
BCT · Red Row
- 0.4 miles
Market Street
BCT · Red Row
- 0.7 miles
Smally's Bar
BCT · Red Row
- 0.7 miles
Smally's Bar
BCT · Red Row
- 0.9 miles
Hadston Road End
BCT · Hadston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 008B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,155 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
121 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.