Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Glendale Middle School is the nearest published school at 846 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE71 6AB
Wooler · Northumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wooler
- Ward
- Wooler
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Postcode district
- NE71
- Postcode sector
- NE71 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE71 6AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2016
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE71
- Postcode sector
- NE71 6
- Latitude
- 55.550290
- Longitude
- -2.014374
- British National Grid easting
- 399,192
- British National Grid northing
- 628,510
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Wooler · E05016151
- Parish or community
- E04010887
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00139388
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 003F · E01027390
- 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 NE71
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Ryecroft Hotel, 28, Ryecroft Way, Wooler, NE71 6AB | 26 October 2018 | £305,000 |
| 28, Ryecroft Way, Wooler, NE71 6AB | 22 December 2016 | £235,000 |
| 28, Ryecroft Way, Wooler, NE71 6AB | 10 July 2006 | £383,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 846 m
Glendale Middle School
Community school
- 857 m
Wooler First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 112
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 42
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Public order 10
- Other theft 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE71 6 residents
- 2,944
Age bands in NE71 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 37.4%
300 residents
164 residents
414 residents
834 residents
1,022 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
WOOLER HEALTH
CHEVIOT PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PADGEPOOL PLACE, WOOLER, NE71 6BL
ODS code A84604
481 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ryecroft Way
BCT · Wooler
- 0.0 miles
Ryecroft Way
BCT · Wooler
- 0.3 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wooler
- 0.3 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wooler
- 0.3 miles
Bus Station
BCT · Wooler
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 003F, 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
13,557 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
112 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 42 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.