Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Croyland Primary School is the nearest published school at 258 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN8 2HX
Brickhill & Queensway · North Northamptonshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN8 2HX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 August 2020
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 2
- Latitude
- 52.296180
- Longitude
- -0.708344
- British National Grid easting
- 488,183
- British National Grid northing
- 267,234
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North Northamptonshire · E06000061
- Electoral ward
- Brickhill & Queensway · E05016205
- Parish or community
- E04013138
- Westminster constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden · E14001571
- Output area
- E00139143
- Lower layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 032B · E01027351
- Middle layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 032 · E02005697
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 NN8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 258 m
Croyland Primary School
Community school
- 261 m
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 304 m
Croyland Nursery School & Day Nursery
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,009
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,453
- Anti social behaviour 594
- Shoplifting 449
- Criminal damage and arson 257
- Public order 222
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NN8 2 residents
- 11,654
Age bands in NN8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
2,329 residents
1,314 residents
3,105 residents
2,996 residents
1,795 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.
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
QUEENSWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
12-14 OLYMPIC WAY, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 3QE
ODS code K83005
1.2 km
ALBANY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 QUEEN STREET, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4RW
ODS code K83026
1.2 km
ABBEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
MANNOCK MEDICAL CENTRE, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 1LT
ODS code K83047
2.1 km
THE REDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TURNER ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4UT
ODS code K83011
2.1 km
DR PASQUALI
IRCHESTER HEALTH CENTRE, 37 SCHOOL ROAD, IRCHESTER, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN29 7AW
ODS code Y00399
4.5 km
EARLS BARTON MEDICAL CENTRE
8 AGGATE WAY, EARLS BARTON, NORTHAMPTON, NN6 0EU
ODS code K83601
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Harvey Road
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
Harvey Road
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.2 miles
Mannock Road
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.2 miles
Mannock Road
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.2 miles
Weavers Road
BCT · Wellingborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Northamptonshire 032B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,351 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
4,009 published events cover 12 months, averaging 334.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,453 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.