Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ashington Academy is the nearest published school at 289 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE63 8AL
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE63 8AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1988
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE63
- Postcode sector
- NE63 8
- Latitude
- 55.180167
- Longitude
- -1.577583
- British National Grid easting
- 427,000
- British National Grid northing
- 587,400
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
- E00140103
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 010B · E01027529
- 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
- 24
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 289 m
Ashington Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 445 m
Gust Independent School
Other independent special school
- 514 m
Rosewood Independent School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,399
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 877
- Anti social behaviour 334
- Criminal damage and arson 270
- Shoplifting 177
- Public order 172
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE63 8 residents
- 8,568
Age bands in NE63 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
1,305 residents
846 residents
2,040 residents
2,574 residents
1,852 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
1.5 km
GUIDEPOST MEDICAL GROUP
NORTH PARADE, CHOPPINGTON, CHOPPINGTON, NE62 5RA
ODS code A84020
3.0 km
THE GABLES MEDICAL GROUP
THE GABLES HEALTH CENTRE, 26 ST. JOHNS ROAD, BEDLINGTON, NE22 7DU
ODS code A84013
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Park Road
BCT · Ashington Park
- 0.0 miles
Park Road
BCT · Ashington Park
- 0.2 miles
Park Road Top
BCT · Ashington
- 0.2 miles
Park Road St Aidan's Church
BCT · Ashington
- 0.2 miles
Station Road St Aidan's
BCT · Ashington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 010B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,159 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 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
2,399 published events cover 12 months, averaging 199.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 877 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.