Schools
85 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 13 secondary schools. Hopespring Newcastle is the nearest published school at 427 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE12 8NB
Longbenton & Benton · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Longbenton & Benton
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE12 8NB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 8
- Latitude
- 55.014452
- Longitude
- -1.589584
- British National Grid easting
- 426,344
- British National Grid northing
- 568,954
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Longbenton & Benton · E05015873
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North · E14001379
- Output area
- E00043210
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 019D · E01008514
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 019 · E02001756
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
- 85
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 13
- 427 m
Hopespring Newcastle
Other independent school
- 570 m
Balliol Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 632 m
Balliol Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,352
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 404
- Anti social behaviour 218
- Public order 137
- Criminal damage and arson 115
- Shoplifting 114
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 60
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- NE12 8 residents
- 10,056
35 female, 25 male
Age bands in NE12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.2%
1,768 residents
922 residents
3,248 residents
2,511 residents
1,633 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE12 8 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
22
within 5 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
441 m
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
1.0 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
1.1 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
1.6 km
REGENT MEDICAL CENTRE
RIDLEY HOUSE, HENRY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1DQ
ODS code A86028
2.2 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
2.3 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
2.4 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
2.4 km
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
2.8 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
2.9 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
3.0 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
3.0 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
3.3 km
PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHOPPING CENTRE, FAWDON PARK ROAD, FAWDON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 2PE
ODS code A86008
3.6 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
4.1 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
4.1 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
4.2 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
4.3 km
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
4.4 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Stoneleigh Avenue - Curlew Close
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.1 miles
Blackfriars Way
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.1 miles
Longbenton Stoneleigh Avenue
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.1 miles
Stoneleigh Avenue-Bardsey Place
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.1 miles
Stoneleigh Avenue-Ancaster Avenue
BCT · Longbenton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 019D, 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
14,935 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
1,352 published events cover 12 months, averaging 112.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 404 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.