Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hipsburn Primary School is the nearest published school at 167 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE66 3NE
Longhoughton · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Longhoughton
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE66
- Postcode sector
- NE66 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE66 3NE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2004
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE66
- Postcode sector
- NE66 3
- Latitude
- 55.394593
- Longitude
- -1.624622
- British National Grid easting
- 423,876
- British National Grid northing
- 611,246
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Longhoughton · E05016124
- Parish or community
- E04010820
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139178
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 004A · E01027356
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 004 · E02005702
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 NE66
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 167 m
Hipsburn Primary School
Community school
- 4.1 km
Longhoughton Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.4 km
Shilbottle Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 54
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Burglary 6
- Other theft 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE66 3 residents
- 4,317
Age bands in NE66 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
535 residents
360 residents
702 residents
1,382 residents
1,241 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
ALNWICK MEDICAL GROUP
LOWER BUILDING, INFIRMARY CLOSE, ALNWICK, NE66 2NL
ODS code A84006
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
First School
BCT · Hipsburn
- 0.1 miles
First School
BCT · Hipsburn
- 0.2 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Hipsburn
- 0.3 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Hipsburn
- 0.3 miles
Village centre
BCT · Lesbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 004A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,665 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
54 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.