Rothwell, North Northamptonshire
Rothwell, North Northamptonshire is covered by postcode district NN14. It is in the North Northamptonshire council area, England.
ONS publishes this built-up area as Rothwell (North Northamptonshire).
Every postcode in this place, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 0
- At medium risk at worst: 0
- At low risk at worst: 0
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 170
Of the 170 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 170 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4220, longitude -0.7995. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
What is it like to live in this place?
Homes sold for a typical £230,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 155 of the 169 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 170 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Kettering, 5.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in this place?
Homes in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire sold for a typical £230,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 105 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £235,000 from 141 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £328,000 30 sales
- Semi-detached £238,000 33 sales
- Terraced £175,000 39 sales
- Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole NN14 district, Rothwell, North Northamptonshire's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in this place: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in this place?
None of the 170 postcodes now in use in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 141 homes sold in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN14 district, 17%.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In this place | Across the NN14 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 105 (0%) | 35 of 654 (5%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 141 (0%) | 159 of 956 (17%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
Ofcom reports on 169 of the 170 postcodes in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire. At 155 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Rothwell, North Northamptonshire at risk of flooding?
None of the 170 postcodes in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in this place?
The open schools at the postcodes in this place. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from this place?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in this place is Kettering Rail Station, 5.6 km away in a straight line.
- Kettering Rail Station Railway station 5.6 kmDrive
- Market Harborough Rail Station Railway station 9.8 kmDrive
- Corby Rail Station Railway station 10.6 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in this place?
The GP practices at the postcodes in this place. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Rothwell Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 01536 211277 700 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is this place safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 686 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in this place over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 39 September 2025
- 51 October 2025
- 51 November 2025
- 34 December 2025
- 47 January 2026
- 37 February 2026
- 43 March 2026
- 56 April 2026
- 76 May 2026
- 83 June 2026
- 97 July 2026
- 72 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: shoplifting 6, possession of weapons 6, other crime 4, theft from the person 3, robbery 2.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs this place?
- Council
- North Northamptonshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kettering
- Police force area
- Northamptonshire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- MP
- Rosie Wrighting (Labour)
All 170 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving here
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell North Northamptonshire about council tax Council tax, on northnorthants.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in this place
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Postcodes here
170 postcodes in use in this place, by district:
That district is in the NN postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places nearby
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside this place's £230,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about this place
- What is the postcode for Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
- Postcode district NN14, with 170 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Rothwell, North Northamptonshire in?
- North Northamptonshire. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
- Rosie Wrighting (Labour), for Kettering. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
- A typical £230,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 105 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Rothwell Victoria Infant School and Rothwell Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Montsaye Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Rothwell, North Northamptonshire have a railway station?
- The nearest is Kettering station, 5.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
- Ofcom reports on 169 of the 170 postcodes in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire. At 155 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Rothwell, North Northamptonshire at risk of flooding?
- None of the 170 postcodes in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire?
- None of the 170 postcodes now in use in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 141 homes sold in Rothwell, North Northamptonshire were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN14 district, 17%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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