Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Mowbray Primary School is the nearest published school at 238 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE62 5WB
Choppington & Hepscott · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE62
- Postcode sector
- NE62 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE62 5WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 November 2000
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE62
- Postcode sector
- NE62 5
- Latitude
- 55.161839
- Longitude
- -1.591840
- British National Grid easting
- 426,104
- British National Grid northing
- 585,355
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Choppington & Hepscott · E05016098
- Parish or community
- E04010842
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00140120
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 017B · E01027531
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 017 · E02005739
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 NE62
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 238 m
Mowbray Primary School
Community school
- 371 m
Cleaswell Hill School
Community special school
- 656 m
Ringway Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 842
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 277
- Anti social behaviour 175
- Shoplifting 102
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Public order 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE62 5 residents
- 9,052
Age bands in NE62 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
1,357 residents
891 residents
1,986 residents
2,633 residents
2,295 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
GUIDEPOST MEDICAL GROUP
NORTH PARADE, CHOPPINGTON, CHOPPINGTON, NE62 5RA
ODS code A84020
915 m
SEATON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
NORHAM ROAD, ASHINGTON, NE63 0NG
ODS code A84028
2.2 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
2.9 km
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Middle School
BCT · Guide Post
- 0.0 miles
Middle School
BCT · Guide Post
- 0.2 miles
Stakeford Terrace
BCT · Stakeford
- 0.2 miles
Stakeford Terrace
BCT · Stakeford
- 0.3 miles
Mitford Gardens
BCT · Wansbeck Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 017B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,400 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
842 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 277 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.