Schools
0 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools.
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NE66 5QA
Wooler · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Alnwick
- Ward
- Wooler
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE66
- Postcode sector
- NE66 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE66 5QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE66
- Postcode sector
- NE66 5
- Latitude
- 55.567510
- Longitude
- -1.911646
- British National Grid easting
- 405,671
- British National Grid northing
- 630,430
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Wooler · E05016151
- Parish or community
- E04010759
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139305
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 003B · E01027375
- Middle layer super output area
- Northumberland 003 · E02005708
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Bungalow West Lyham, Chatton, Alnwick, NE66 5QA | 23 December 2009 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- NE66 5 residents
- 344
4 female, 4 male
Age bands in NE66 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 3.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 35.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.1%
47 residents
14 residents
54 residents
132 residents
128 residents
This postcode contained 2.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE66 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
The Green
BCT · Chatton
- 1.7 miles
Wandon crossroads
BCT · Chatton
- 1.7 miles
Wandon crossroads
BCT · Chatton
- 2.7 miles
Post Office
BCT · Chillingham
- 2.7 miles
Post Office
BCT · Chillingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 003B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,259 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.