Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Ferrers School is the nearest published school at 280 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN9 8BX
Higham Ferrers · North Northamptonshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Higham Ferrers
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden
- Postcode district
- NN9
- Postcode sector
- NN9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN9 8BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN9
- Postcode sector
- NN9 8
- Latitude
- 52.304785
- Longitude
- -0.591170
- British National Grid easting
- 496,155
- British National Grid northing
- 268,340
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North Northamptonshire · E06000061
- Electoral ward
- Higham Ferrers · E05016214
- Parish or community
- E04012336
- Westminster constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden · E14001571
- Output area
- E00137527
- Lower layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 035A · E01027034
- Middle layer super output area
- North Northamptonshire 035 · E02005635
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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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 280 m
The Ferrers School
Academy converter
- 298 m
Higham Ferrers Junior School
Academy converter
- 399 m
Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,741
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 546
- Anti social behaviour 370
- Shoplifting 252
- Criminal damage and arson 127
- Vehicle crime 115
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
HIGHAM FERRERS SURGERY
SAFFRON ROAD, HIGHAM FERRERS, RUSHDEN, NN10 8ED
ODS code K83080
412 m
RUSHDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ADNITT ROAD, RUSHDEN, NN10 9TR
ODS code K83024
1.9 km
HARBOROUGH FIELD SURGERY
160 NEWTON ROAD, RUSHDEN, NN10 0GP
ODS code K83007
2.1 km
PARKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
WYMINGTON ROAD, RUSHDEN, NN10 9EB
ODS code K83044
2.4 km
SPINNEY BROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
59 HIGH STREET, IRTHLINGBOROUGH, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN9 5GA
ODS code K83028
2.7 km
DR PASQUALI
IRCHESTER HEALTH CENTRE, 37 SCHOOL ROAD, IRCHESTER, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN29 7AW
ODS code Y00399
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
3 Manor Way
BCT · Higham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
3 Manor Way
BCT · Higham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
3 Manor Way
BCT · Higham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
3 Manor Way
BCT · Higham Ferrers
- 0.1 miles
Queensway
BCT · Higham Ferrers
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Northamptonshire 035A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,043 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,741 published events cover 12 months, averaging 145.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 546 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.