Rushden
Rushden is covered by postcode districts NN10 and NN29. It is in the North Northamptonshire council area, England.
Every postcode in Rushden, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 18
- In use before 2020: 633
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 651 postcodes in Rushden that ONS places, 18 are new since 2020 and 633 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.2897, longitude -0.5992. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Rushden?
Homes sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.1% on the 12 months before. At 586 of the 636 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 29 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 23 of its 651 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, 5.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Rushden?
Homes in Rushden sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 387 sales, down 1.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £340,000 95 sales
- Semi-detached £248,750 134 sales
- Terraced £200,000 108 sales
- Flat or maisonette £106,250 50 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole NN10 district, Rushden's main postcode district: a typical £245,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rushden: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Rushden?
18 of the 651 postcodes now in use in Rushden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 487 homes sold in Rushden were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN10 district, Under 1%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Rushden | Across the NN10 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 387 (0%) | 3 of 521 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 487 (0%) | 4 of 635 (Under 1%) |
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.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Rushden?
Ofcom reports on 636 of the 651 postcodes in Rushden. At 586 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Rushden at risk of flooding?
23 of the 651 postcodes in Rushden have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 29 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Rushden?
The open schools at the postcodes in Rushden. 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.
Primary
- Alfred Lord Tennyson School50 m 147 pupils, 210 places
- Denfield Park Primary School650 m 444 pupils, 420 places
- Newton Road School650 m 196 pupils, 285 places
- Whitefriars Primary School900 m 397 pupils, 420 places
- South End Infant School1.1 km 195 pupils, 270 places
- South End Junior School1.1 km 338 pupils, 360 places
- Rushden Primary Academy1.4 km 388 pupils, 420 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Rushden?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rushden is Wellingborough Rail Station, 5.5 km away in a straight line.
- Wellingborough Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive
- Kettering Rail Station Railway station 14.6 kmDrive
- Bedford Rail Station Railway station 18.9 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Rushden?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Rushden. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Rushden Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01933 412666 400 mWalk
- Parklands Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01933 396000 700 mWalk
- Harborough Field Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01933 354200 1.2 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Rushden safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 3,159 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rushden 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
- 273 September 2025
- 261 October 2025
- 235 November 2025
- 242 December 2025
- 325 January 2026
- 230 February 2026
- 277 March 2026
- 255 April 2026
- 266 May 2026
- 265 June 2026
- 263 July 2026
- 267 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 92, other crime 55, possession of weapons 49, robbery 34, bicycle theft 13, theft from the person 9.
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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Rushden?
- Council
- North Northamptonshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden
- Police force area
- Northamptonshire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- MP
- Gen Kitchen (Labour)
All 651 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources
Moving to Rushden
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 Rushden
- 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
Rushden postcodes
651 postcodes in use in Rushden, by district:
Those districts are all in the NN postcode area.
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Places near Rushden
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Rushden's £235,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Rushden
- What is it like to live in Rushden?
- Homes sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.1% on the 12 months before. At 586 of the 636 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 29 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 23 of its 651 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, 5.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Rushden?
- Rushden is covered by postcode districts NN10 and NN29, across 651 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Rushden in?
- Rushden is in the North Northamptonshire council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Rushden?
- Rushden is in the Wellingborough and Rushden parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Gen Kitchen (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Rushden?
- Homes in Rushden sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 387 sales, down 1.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Rushden?
- In Rushden, primary schools at its postcodes include Alfred Lord Tennyson School, Denfield Park Primary School and Newton Road School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Rushden Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Rushden have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rushden is Wellingborough, 5.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Rushden?
- Ofcom reports on 636 of the 651 postcodes in Rushden. At 586 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Rushden at risk of flooding?
- 23 of the 651 postcodes in Rushden have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 29 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Rushden?
- 18 of the 651 postcodes now in use in Rushden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 487 homes sold in Rushden were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN10 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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