Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. John Hunt Academy is the nearest published school at 411 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG24 3EF
Balderton South · Newark and Sherwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newark
- Ward
- Balderton South
- Local authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark
- Postcode district
- NG24
- Postcode sector
- NG24 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG24 3EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG24
- Postcode sector
- NG24 3
- Latitude
- 53.055353
- Longitude
- -0.787932
- British National Grid easting
- 481,336
- British National Grid northing
- 351,584
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Newark and Sherwood · E07000175
- Electoral ward
- Balderton South · E05010064
- Parish or community
- E04013147
- Westminster constituency
- Newark · E14001375
- Output area
- E00144134
- Lower layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 011F · E01028290
- Middle layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 011 · E02005903
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, South View, New Balderton, Newark, NG24 3EF | 22 June 2018 | £50,000 |
| 5, South View, New Balderton, Newark, NG24 3EF | 26 October 2005 | £42,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 411 m
John Hunt Academy
Academy converter
- 763 m
Chuter Ede Primary School
Community school
- 827 m
The Newark Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,093
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 364
- Anti social behaviour 173
- Criminal damage and arson 129
- Shoplifting 96
- Other crime 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- NG24 3 residents
- 15,142
16 female, 7 male
Age bands in NG24 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
2,611 residents
1,457 residents
3,752 residents
4,137 residents
3,328 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NG24 3 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+
- 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
- 100%
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
BALDERTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
LOWFIELD LANE, BALDERTON, NEWARK, NG24 3HJ
ODS code Y05369
290 m
FOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTRE
SHERWOOD AVENUE, NEWARK, NG24 1QH
ODS code C84019
2.3 km
BARNBY GATE SURGERY
50 BARNBY GATE, NEWARK, NG24 1QD
ODS code C84009
2.5 km
LOMBARD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PORTLAND STREET, NEWARK, NEWARK, NG24 4XG
ODS code C84029
2.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Stafford Avenue
BCT · Balderton
- 0.1 miles
Stafford Avenue
BCT · Balderton
- 0.1 miles
Mount Court
BCT · Balderton
- 0.1 miles
Kingsway
BCT · Balderton
- 0.1 miles
Meadow Road
BCT · Balderton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newark and Sherwood 011F, 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
16,426 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,093 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 364 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.