Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 10 secondary schools. Grasmere Academy is the nearest published school at 322 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE12 6GF
Killingworth · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Killingworth
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE12 6GF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 6
- Latitude
- 55.035658
- Longitude
- -1.570623
- British National Grid easting
- 427,542
- British National Grid northing
- 571,321
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Killingworth · E05015872
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth · E14001183
- Output area
- E00043026
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 008D · E01008479
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 008 · E02001745
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 NE12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 10
- 322 m
Grasmere Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 352 m
George Stephenson High School
Foundation school
- 381 m
Bailey Green Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,257
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 419
- Anti social behaviour 218
- Shoplifting 165
- Criminal damage and arson 114
- Public order 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- NE12 6 residents
- 9,475
23 female, 17 male
Age bands in NE12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
1,608 residents
877 residents
2,368 residents
2,577 residents
2,076 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE12 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
15
within 5 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
456 m
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
456 m
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
1.7 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
2.8 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
3.0 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
3.3 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
3.4 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
3.7 km
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
3.8 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
3.9 km
NORTHUMBERLAND PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHIREMOOR CENTRE, EARSDON ROAD, SHIREMOOR, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE27 0HJ
ODS code A87022
4.1 km
REGENT MEDICAL CENTRE
RIDLEY HOUSE, HENRY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1DQ
ODS code A86028
4.5 km
NPC ELSDON AVENUE
ELSDON AVENUE, SEATON DELAVAL, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 0BW
ODS code A84619
4.8 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
4.8 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Citadel West
BCT · Killingworth
- 0.1 miles
Citadel West - West Mount Estate
BCT · Killingworth
- 0.1 miles
West Bailey-Garth 4
BCT · Killingworth
- 0.1 miles
West Bailey-Garth 4
BCT · Killingworth
- 0.2 miles
Southgate-School
BCT · Killingworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 008D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,657 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,257 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 419 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.