Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Central Academy is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE63 0AR
Ashington Central · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashington Central
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington
- Postcode district
- NE63
- Postcode sector
- NE63 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE63 0AR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2013
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE63
- Postcode sector
- NE63 0
- Latitude
- 55.183099
- Longitude
- -1.568051
- British National Grid easting
- 427,605
- British National Grid northing
- 587,730
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Ashington Central · E05016087
- Parish or community
- E04012233
- Westminster constituency
- Blyth and Ashington · E14001107
- Output area
- E00140102
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 010A · E01027528
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 010 · E02005735
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 NE63
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 308 m
Central Academy
Academy converter
- 317 m
Rosewood Independent School
Other independent special school
- 429 m
Gust Independent School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,729
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,047
- Anti social behaviour 345
- Criminal damage and arson 296
- Public order 199
- Shoplifting 191
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE63 0 residents
- 7,589
Age bands in NE63 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
1,187 residents
761 residents
1,769 residents
2,014 residents
1,596 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
SEATON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
NORHAM ROAD, ASHINGTON, NE63 0NG
ODS code A84028
1.4 km
GUIDEPOST MEDICAL GROUP
NORTH PARADE, CHOPPINGTON, CHOPPINGTON, NE62 5RA
ODS code A84020
3.7 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Ashington
- 0.0 miles
Woodhorn Road
BCT · Ashington
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Ashington
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Ashington
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Ashington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 010A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,843 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
2,729 published events cover 12 months, averaging 227.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,047 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.