Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Suthers School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG23 5GX
Farndon & Fernwood · Newark and Sherwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Farndon & Fernwood
- Local authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark
- Postcode district
- NG23
- Postcode sector
- NG23 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG23 5GX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG23
- Postcode sector
- NG23 5
- Latitude
- 53.020875
- Longitude
- -0.815271
- British National Grid easting
- 479,567
- British National Grid northing
- 347,718
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Newark and Sherwood · E07000175
- Electoral ward
- Farndon & Fernwood · E05011555
- Parish or community
- E04007893
- Westminster constituency
- Newark · E14001375
- Output area
- E00144320
- Lower layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 012B · E01028325
- Middle layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 012 · E02005904
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 NG23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.5 km
The Suthers School
Free schools
- 3.7 km
All Saints Anglican/Methodist Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.5 km
The Sir Donald Bailey Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Robbery 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NG23 5 residents
- 7,442
Age bands in NG23 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
1,016 residents
625 residents
1,170 residents
2,495 residents
2,051 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BALDERTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
LOWFIELD LANE, BALDERTON, NEWARK, NG24 3HJ
ODS code Y05369
4.1 km
LONG BENNINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 VALLEY LANE, LONG BENNINGTON, NEWARK, NG23 5FR
ODS code C83067
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Cotham
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Cotham
- 2.1 miles
St Anns Way
BCT · Shelton
- 2.1 miles
St Anns Way
BCT · Shelton
- 2.2 miles
Church
BCT · Hawton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newark and Sherwood 012B, 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
24,348 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.