Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 0 secondary schools. Muskham Primary School is the nearest published school at 418 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG23 6JA
Muskham · Newark and Sherwood · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG23 6JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG23
- Postcode sector
- NG23 6
- Latitude
- 53.116226
- Longitude
- -0.808874
- British National Grid easting
- 479,820
- British National Grid northing
- 358,332
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Newark and Sherwood · E07000175
- Electoral ward
- Muskham · E05010077
- Parish or community
- E04007930
- Westminster constituency
- Newark · E14001375
- Output area
- E00144388
- Lower layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 003C · E01028337
- Middle layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 003 · E02005895
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Goldson Way, North Muskham, Newark, NG23 6JA | 27 October 2006 | £320,000 |
| 4, Goldson Way, North Muskham, Newark, NG23 6JA | 11 April 2005 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 0
- 418 m
Muskham Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Winthorpe Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Bishop Alexander L.E.A.D. Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 64
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 20
- Other theft 14
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Burglary 4
- Other crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- NG23 6 residents
- 5,663
3 female, 1 male
Age bands in NG23 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
800 residents
472 residents
980 residents
1,754 residents
1,498 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NG23 6 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 33.3%
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
4
within 5 km
BARNBY GATE SURGERY
50 BARNBY GATE, NEWARK, NG24 1QD
ODS code C84009
4.6 km
COLLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, COLLINGHAM, NEWARK, NG23 7LB
ODS code C84045
4.6 km
LOMBARD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PORTLAND STREET, NEWARK, NEWARK, NG24 4XG
ODS code C84029
4.7 km
FOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTRE
SHERWOOD AVENUE, NEWARK, NG24 1QH
ODS code C84019
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Nelson Lane
BCT · North Muskham
- 0.3 miles
Nelson Lane
BCT · North Muskham
- 0.4 miles
Great North Road
BCT · North Muskham
- 0.4 miles
Great North Road
BCT · North Muskham
- 0.5 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · North Muskham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newark and Sherwood 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,960 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 3
- 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
64 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.