Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ruskin Infant School is the nearest published school at 283 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN8 3SR
Brickhill & Queensway · North Northamptonshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wellingborough
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN8 3SR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 3
- Latitude
- 52.301111
- Longitude
- -0.721092
- British National Grid easting
- 487,304
- British National Grid northing
- 267,767
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
- E00139091
- Lower layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 031B · E01027340
- Middle layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 031 · E02005696
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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Gosforth, Wellingborough, NN8 3SR | 3 July 2019 | £118,000 |
| 1, Gosforth, Wellingborough, NN8 3SR | 31 July 2015 | £90,000 |
| 4, Gosforth, Wellingborough, NN8 3SR | 29 February 2012 | £80,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 283 m
Ruskin Infant School
Academy converter
- 286 m
Ruskin Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 468 m
Olympic Primary
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,048
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 791
- Anti social behaviour 361
- Shoplifting 170
- Criminal damage and arson 146
- Vehicle crime 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- NN8 3 residents
- 13,565
14 female, 23 male
Age bands in NN8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.4%
2,667 residents
1,444 residents
3,457 residents
3,158 residents
2,420 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NN8 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
- 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
5
within 5 km
QUEENSWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
12-14 OLYMPIC WAY, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 3QE
ODS code K83005
459 m
ALBANY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 QUEEN STREET, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4RW
ODS code K83026
1.8 km
THE REDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TURNER ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4UT
ODS code K83011
2.0 km
ABBEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
MANNOCK MEDICAL CENTRE, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 1LT
ODS code K83047
3.0 km
EARLS BARTON MEDICAL CENTRE
8 AGGATE WAY, EARLS BARTON, NORTHAMPTON, NN6 0EU
ODS code K83601
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
Masefield Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.0 miles
Masefield Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
Cowper Road
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
Canonbury
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
Canonbury
BCT · Wellingborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Northamptonshire 031B, 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
9,228 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,048 published events cover 12 months, averaging 170.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 791 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.