Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sponne School is the nearest published school at 212 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN12 7BU
Towcester · West Northamptonshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Towcester
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire
- Postcode district
- NN12
- Postcode sector
- NN12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN12 7BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN12
- Postcode sector
- NN12 7
- Latitude
- 52.133192
- Longitude
- -0.990409
- British National Grid easting
- 469,200
- British National Grid northing
- 248,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Northamptonshire · E06000062
- Electoral ward
- Towcester · E05016007
- Parish or community
- E04013515
- Westminster constituency
- South Northamptonshire · E14001490
- Output area
- E00138892
- Lower layer super output area
- West Northamptonshire 045E · E01027303
- Middle layer super output area
- West Northamptonshire 045 · E02005684
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 NN12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 212 m
Sponne School
Academy converter
- 590 m
Towcester Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 838 m
Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 584
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 198
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Public order 44
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Other theft 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NN12 7 residents
- 6,435
Age bands in NN12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
1,060 residents
619 residents
1,412 residents
2,071 residents
1,412 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
TOWCESTER MEDICAL CENTRE
LINK WAY, TOWCESTER, NN12 6HH
ODS code K83022
691 m
THE BROOK HEALTH CENTRE
SWINNEYFORD ROAD, TOWCESTER, NN12 6HD
ODS code K83620
719 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Saracens Head Hotel
BCT · Towcester
- 0.0 miles
Saracens Head Hotel
BCT · Towcester
- 0.0 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Towcester
- 0.1 miles
The Forum
BCT · Towcester
- 0.1 miles
Brave Old Oak PH
BCT · Towcester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Northamptonshire 045E, 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
28,872 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
584 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 198 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.