Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ruskin Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN8 6AB
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN8 6AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 6
- Latitude
- 52.300972
- Longitude
- -0.739971
- British National Grid easting
- 486,017
- British National Grid northing
- 267,729
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
- E00139087
- Lower layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 031A · E01027339
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3 - 5, Huxley Close, Wellingborough, NN8 6AB | 31 October 2019 | £1,580,000 |
| 36, Huxley Close, Wellingborough, NN8 6AB | 7 December 2009 | £237,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
Ruskin Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Ruskin Infant School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Olympic Primary
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 776
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 353
- Anti social behaviour 134
- Criminal damage and arson 66
- Vehicle crime 44
- Drugs 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NN8 6 residents
- 43
Age bands in NN8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.9%
134 residents
69 residents
171 residents
160 residents
101 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
5
within 5 km
QUEENSWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
12-14 OLYMPIC WAY, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 3QE
ODS code K83005
1.5 km
THE REDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TURNER ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4UT
ODS code K83011
3.0 km
ALBANY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 QUEEN STREET, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4RW
ODS code K83026
3.1 km
EARLS BARTON MEDICAL CENTRE
8 AGGATE WAY, EARLS BARTON, NORTHAMPTON, NN6 0EU
ODS code K83601
4.2 km
ABBEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
MANNOCK MEDICAL CENTRE, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 1LT
ODS code K83047
4.2 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
(Wellingborough) Ryle Drive
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
(Wellingborough) Ryle Drive
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.2 miles
Napier Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.2 miles
Napier Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.5 miles
133 Burns Road
BCT · Wellingborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Northamptonshire 031A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,767 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
776 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 353 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.