Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Brooke Weston Academy is the nearest published school at 960 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN18 8HL
Oakley · North Northamptonshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Corby
- Ward
- Oakley
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire
- Postcode district
- NN18
- Postcode sector
- NN18 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN18 8HL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN18
- Postcode sector
- NN18 8
- Latitude
- 52.462717
- Longitude
- -0.724160
- British National Grid easting
- 486,778
- British National Grid northing
- 285,738
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North Northamptonshire · E06000061
- Electoral ward
- Oakley · E05016222
- Parish or community
- E04013159
- Westminster constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire · E14001179
- Output area
- E00137094
- Lower layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 009C · E01026955
- Middle layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 009 · E02006862
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Field Cottages, Great Oakley, Corby, NN18 8HL | 8 May 2017 | £235,000 |
| 6, Field Cottages, Great Oakley, Corby, NN18 8HL | 11 January 2013 | £270,000 |
| 6, Field Cottages, Great Oakley, Corby, NN18 8HL | 31 October 2003 | £226,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 960 m
Brooke Weston Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Danesholme Infant Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Danesholme Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 948
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 404
- Anti social behaviour 176
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Other theft 62
- Shoplifting 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- NN18 8 residents
- 19,329
10 female, 6 male
Age bands in NN18 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.4%
4,571 residents
2,174 residents
6,503 residents
4,760 residents
1,647 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NN18 8 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
- 0%
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
GREAT OAKLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARTH CLOSE, GREAT OAKLEY, CORBY, NN18 8LU
ODS code K83622
876 m
ASPIRO HEALTHCARE
WOODSEND MEDICAL CENTRE, SCHOOL PLACE, CORBY, NN18 0QP
ODS code Y06354
2.5 km
WOODSEND MEDICAL CENTRE
SCHOOL PLACE, CORBY, NN18 0QP
ODS code K83059
2.5 km
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE
FOREST GATE MEDICAL CENTRE, FOREST GATE ROAD, CORBY, NN17 1TR
ODS code K83002
3.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Home Farm Close
BCT · Great Oakley
- 0.2 miles
(Gt Oakley) Lower Pastures
BCT · Great Oakley
- 0.2 miles
(Gt Oakley) Lower Pastures
BCT · Great Oakley
- 0.2 miles
(Gt Oakley) Hoppet Close
BCT · Great Oakley
- 0.2 miles
(Gt Oakley) Hoppet Close
BCT · Great Oakley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Northamptonshire 009C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,436 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
948 published events cover 12 months, averaging 79 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 404 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.