Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Rothbury First School is the nearest published school at 171 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE65 7SX
Rothbury · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rothbury
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE65
- Postcode sector
- NE65 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE65 7SX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE65
- Postcode sector
- NE65 7
- Latitude
- 55.310051
- Longitude
- -1.910060
- British National Grid easting
- 405,808
- British National Grid northing
- 601,777
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Rothbury · E05016141
- Parish or community
- E04013132
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139261
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 007B · E01027368
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 007 · E02005705
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 NE65
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 171 m
Rothbury First School
Community school
- 760 m
Dr Thomlinson Church of England Middle School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Thropton Village First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 76
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Other crime 8
- Public order 7
- Burglary 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE65 7 residents
- 3,717
Age bands in NE65 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.7%
412 residents
267 residents
496 residents
1,294 residents
1,370 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 ROTHBURY
WHITTON BANK ROAD, ROTHBURY, MORPETH, NE65 7RW
ODS code A84002
440 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Queen's Head
BCT · Rothbury
- 0.0 miles
Queen's Head
BCT · Rothbury
- 0.2 miles
Library
BCT · Rothbury
- 0.2 miles
Library
BCT · Rothbury
- 0.3 miles
Rothbury Community Hospital
BCT · Rothbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 007B, 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
18,484 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
76 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.333 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.