Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Highfields School is the nearest published school at 170 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG24 2UN
Beacon · Newark and Sherwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Beacon
- Local authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark
- Postcode district
- NG24
- Postcode sector
- NG24 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG24 2UN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG24
- Postcode sector
- NG24 2
- Latitude
- 53.067856
- Longitude
- -0.789641
- British National Grid easting
- 481,198
- British National Grid northing
- 352,973
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Newark and Sherwood · E07000175
- Electoral ward
- Beacon · E05011553
- Parish or community
- E04013147
- Westminster constituency
- Newark · E14001375
- Output area
- E00173446
- Lower layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 009A · E01028292
- Middle layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 009 · E02005901
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 NG24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 170 m
Highfields School
Other independent school
- 459 m
Newark Orchard School
Academy special converter
- 598 m
Barnby Road Academy Primary and Nursery school
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,177
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 713
- Anti social behaviour 306
- Criminal damage and arson 251
- Shoplifting 232
- Public order 155
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NG24 2 residents
- 10,680
Age bands in NG24 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
1,836 residents
1,049 residents
2,785 residents
2,934 residents
2,180 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
4
within 5 km
FOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTRE
SHERWOOD AVENUE, NEWARK, NG24 1QH
ODS code C84019
1.1 km
BARNBY GATE SURGERY
50 BARNBY GATE, NEWARK, NG24 1QD
ODS code C84009
1.3 km
LOMBARD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PORTLAND STREET, NEWARK, NEWARK, NG24 4XG
ODS code C84029
1.6 km
BALDERTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
LOWFIELD LANE, BALDERTON, NEWARK, NG24 3HJ
ODS code Y05369
1.7 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
- 0.2 miles
The Woodwards
BCT · Balderton
- 0.2 miles
The Woodwards
BCT · Balderton
- 0.2 miles
The Paddocks
BCT · Newark
- 0.2 miles
Glebe Park
BCT · Balderton
- 0.3 miles
The Paddocks
BCT · Newark
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newark and Sherwood 009A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,941 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
2,177 published events cover 12 months, averaging 181.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 713 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.