Wellingborough
Wellingborough is covered by postcode districts NN8 and NN9. It is in the North Northamptonshire council area, England.
Every postcode in Wellingborough, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 10
- At medium risk at worst: 6
- At low risk at worst: 18
- At very low risk only: 13
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,109
Of the 1,156 postcodes in Wellingborough that ONS places, 10 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 18 are at low risk at worst, 13 are at very low risk only and 1,109 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.3039, longitude -0.6996. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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 postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Wellingborough?
Homes sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.9% on the 12 months before. At 1,020 of the 1,081 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 85 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 47 of its 1,156 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes, or more. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Wellingborough?
Homes in Wellingborough sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 473 sales, down 2.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 12 months to August 2025
- £245,000
- 12 months to August 2026
- £238,000
▼ down 2.9% on the 12 months before
Across the whole NN8 district, Wellingborough's main postcode district: a typical £253,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wellingborough: 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 Wellingborough?
71 of the 1,156 postcodes now in use in Wellingborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 93 of the 713 homes sold in Wellingborough were newly built (13%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN8 district, 37%.
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 Wellingborough | Across the NN8 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 5 of 473 (1%) | 74 of 565 (13%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 93 of 713 (13%) | 379 of 1,014 (37%) |
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 Wellingborough?
Ofcom reports on 1,081 of the 1,156 postcodes in Wellingborough. At 1,020 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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Wellingborough at risk of flooding?
47 of the 1,156 postcodes in Wellingborough 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 85 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 Wellingborough?
The open schools at the postcodes in Wellingborough (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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
- St Barnabas Church of England School350 m 170 pupils, 180 places
- Freemans Endowed Church of England Junior Academy400 m 239 pupils, 240 places
- Park Junior School, Wellingborough500 m 237 pupils, 240 places
- The Avenue Infant School550 m 165 pupils, 180 places
- Croyland Primary School700 m 414 pupils, 420 places
- All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery1.0 km 242 pupils, 210 places
- Wellingborough School1.1 km 699 pupils, 950 places
- Victoria Primary Academy1.1 km 412 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 Wellingborough?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wellingborough is Wellingborough Rail Station, 1.6 km away in a straight line.
- Wellingborough Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
- Kettering Rail Station Railway station 10.2 kmDrive
- Northampton Rail Station Railway station 15.9 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 Wellingborough?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Wellingborough. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Albany House Medical Centre300 m
- The Redwell Medical Centre1.2 km
- Queensway Medical Centre1.3 km
- Abbey Medical Practice1.6 km
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Wellingborough safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,898 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wellingborough 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
- 409 September 2025
- 350 October 2025
- 363 November 2025
- 402 December 2025
- 410 January 2026
- 394 February 2026
- 366 March 2026
- 374 April 2026
- 449 May 2026
- 452 June 2026
- 511 July 2026
- 418 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 138, robbery 106, possession of weapons 88, other crime 74, bicycle theft 34, theft from the person 17.
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 Wellingborough?
- Council
- North Northamptonshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Wellingborough and Rushden (1,137) and Daventry (19)
- Police force area
- Northamptonshire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Wellingborough
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 Wellingborough
- 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 Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Wellingborough postcodes
1,156 postcodes in use in Wellingborough, by district:
Those districts are all in the NN postcode area.
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Places near Wellingborough
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wellingborough's £238,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Wellingborough
- What is it like to live in Wellingborough?
- Homes sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.9% on the 12 months before. At 1,020 of the 1,081 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 85 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 47 of its 1,156 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes, or more. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. 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 Wellingborough?
- Wellingborough is covered by postcode districts NN8 and NN9, across 1,156 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Wellingborough in?
- Wellingborough is in the North Northamptonshire council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Wellingborough?
- Homes in Wellingborough sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 473 sales, down 2.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Wellingborough?
- In Wellingborough, primary schools at its postcodes include St Barnabas Church of England School, Freemans Endowed Church of England Junior Academy and Park Junior School, Wellingborough; secondary schools at its postcodes include Sir Christopher Hatton Academy, Friars Academy and Weavers Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Wellingborough have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wellingborough is Wellingborough, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Wellingborough?
- Ofcom reports on 1,081 of the 1,156 postcodes in Wellingborough. At 1,020 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Wellingborough at risk of flooding?
- 47 of the 1,156 postcodes in Wellingborough 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 85 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 Wellingborough?
- 71 of the 1,156 postcodes now in use in Wellingborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 93 of the 713 homes sold in Wellingborough were newly built (13%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN8 district, 37%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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