Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Outwood Academy Kirkby is the nearest published school at 442 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG17 8BS
Kirkby Cross & Portland · Ashfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG17 8BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 February 2008
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG17
- Postcode sector
- NG17 8
- Latitude
- 53.094527
- Longitude
- -1.249253
- British National Grid easting
- 450,371
- British National Grid northing
- 355,519
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Ashfield · E07000170
- Electoral ward
- Kirkby Cross & Portland · E05010685
- Parish or community
- E43000122
- Westminster constituency
- Ashfield · E14001068
- Output area
- E00176863
- Lower layer super output area
- Ashfield 009C · E01027950
- Middle layer super output area
- Ashfield 009 · E02005827
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 NG17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 442 m
Outwood Academy Kirkby
Academy converter
- 512 m
Kingsway Primary School
Academy converter
- 753 m
Morven Park Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,109
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 714
- Shoplifting 331
- Anti social behaviour 286
- Criminal damage and arson 186
- Public order 116
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NG17 8 residents
- 12,362
Age bands in NG17 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.3%
2,312 residents
1,256 residents
3,213 residents
3,141 residents
1,936 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE (KIRKBY)
FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE, 56A LOW MOOR ROAD, KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 7BG
ODS code C84074
691 m
HEALTH CARE COMPLEX, KIRKBY
52 LOWMOOR ROAD, KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 7BG
ODS code C84629
691 m
LOWMOOR ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, LOWMOOR ROAD, KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 7BG
ODS code C84140
691 m
KIRKBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWMOOR ROAD, KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 7LG
ODS code C84076
720 m
KIRKBY COMMUNITY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
PORTLAND STREET, KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 7AE
ODS code Y05690
808 m
ASHFIELD HOUSE (ANNESLEY)
ASHFIELD HOUSE, FOREST ROAD, KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD, ANNESLEY WOODHOUSE, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 9JB
ODS code C84067
2.1 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLUEBELL WOOD WAY, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 1JW
ODS code C84014
3.3 km
KING'S MEDICAL CENTRE
KING STREET, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 1AT
ODS code C84061
3.4 km
WILLOWBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROOK STREET, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 1ES
ODS code C84012
3.4 km
SELSTON SURGERY
139 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SELSTON, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 6BT
ODS code C84142
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
St Thomas Church
BCT · Kirkby in Ashfield
- 0.3 miles
St Thomas Church
BCT · Kirkby in Ashfield
- 0.3 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Kirkby in Ashfield
- 0.3 miles
Nags Head
BCT · Kirkby in Ashfield
- 0.3 miles
Nags Head
BCT · Kirkby in Ashfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ashfield 009C, 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
14,799 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
2,109 published events cover 12 months, averaging 175.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 714 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.