Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Ringway Primary School is the nearest published school at 141 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE62 5XW
Stakeford · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stakeford
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE62
- Postcode sector
- NE62 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE62 5XW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE62
- Postcode sector
- NE62 5
- Latitude
- 55.166703
- Longitude
- -1.592684
- British National Grid easting
- 426,047
- British National Grid northing
- 585,896
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Stakeford · E05016148
- Parish or community
- E04010842
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00140144
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 017D · E01027535
- 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
- 28
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 141 m
Ringway Primary School
Community school
- 546 m
Mowbray Primary School
Community school
- 589 m
Cleaswell Hill School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 922
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 289
- Anti social behaviour 170
- Shoplifting 164
- Criminal damage and arson 77
- Public order 67
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
1.3 km
SEATON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
NORHAM ROAD, ASHINGTON, NE63 0NG
ODS code A84028
2.1 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
3.4 km
BEDLINGTONSHIRE MED.GROUP
GLEBE ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 6JX
ODS code A84005
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Glendale Avenue
BCT · Wansbeck Estate
- 0.1 miles
Glendale Avenue
BCT · Wansbeck Estate
- 0.1 miles
Mitford Gardens
BCT · Wansbeck Estate
- 0.1 miles
Mitford Gardens
BCT · Wansbeck Estate
- 0.3 miles
Cheviot Way
BCT · Stakeford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 017D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,872 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
922 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 289 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.