Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Olympic Primary is the nearest published school at 849 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN8 6XJ
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 6XJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 November 2014
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 6
- Latitude
- 52.308186
- Longitude
- -0.733532
- British National Grid easting
- 486,442
- British National Grid northing
- 268,539
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
Explore NN8
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sigmaform House, Sywell Road, Wellingborough, NN8 6XJ | 5 July 2016 | £3,000,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 849 m
Olympic Primary
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Ruskin Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Ruskin Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,116
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 484
- Anti social behaviour 189
- Criminal damage and arson 97
- Vehicle crime 58
- Public order 54
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
QUEENSWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
12-14 OLYMPIC WAY, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 3QE
ODS code K83005
1.1 km
THE REDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TURNER ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4UT
ODS code K83011
2.3 km
ALBANY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 QUEEN STREET, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 4RW
ODS code K83026
2.7 km
ABBEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
MANNOCK MEDICAL CENTRE, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 1LT
ODS code K83047
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shaw Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
(Wellingborough) Davy Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
Homebase
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
(Wellingborough) Davy Close
BCT · Wellingborough
- 0.1 miles
Faraday Close
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,116 published events cover 12 months, averaging 93 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 484 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.