Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wooler First School is the nearest published school at 2.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE71 6AU
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 6AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE71
- Postcode sector
- NE71 6
- Latitude
- 55.584883
- Longitude
- -2.004281
- British National Grid easting
- 399,829
- British National Grid northing
- 632,360
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Northumberland · E06000057
- Electoral ward
- Wooler · E05016151
- Parish or community
- E04010769
- Westminster constituency
- North Northumberland · E14001397
- Output area
- E00176349
- Lower layer super output area
- Northumberland 003C · E01027381
- 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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Old School, Drovers Lane, Doddington, Wooler, NE71 6AU | 15 February 2019 | £255,000 |
| South Doddington, 6 Farm Cottages, Drovers Lane, Doddington, Wooler, NE71 6AU | 24 February 2017 | £135,000 |
| South Doddington, 5 Farm Cottages, Drovers Lane, Doddington, Wooler, NE71 6AU | 19 January 2017 | £119,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 4.5 km
Wooler First School
Community school
- 4.5 km
Glendale Middle School
Community school
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.
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
WOOLER HEALTH
CHEVIOT PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PADGEPOOL PLACE, WOOLER, NE71 6BL
ODS code A84604
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Doddington
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Doddington
- 1.8 miles
Wrangham road end
BCT · Doddington
- 1.8 miles
Wrangham road end
BCT · Doddington
- 1.9 miles
Turvelaws Farm
BCT · Wooler
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Northumberland 003C, 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
11,638 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.