Schools
91 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 14 secondary schools. Hopespring Newcastle is the nearest published school at 364 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE12 9ND
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE12 9ND
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 9
- Latitude
- 55.010406
- Longitude
- -1.599695
- British National Grid easting
- 425,700
- British National Grid northing
- 568,500
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
- E00043216
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 019C · E01008513
- 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
- 91
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 14
- 364 m
Hopespring Newcastle
Other independent school
- 516 m
St Mary's Catholic School
Academy converter
- 631 m
Archbishop Runcie CofE First School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,796
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 480
- Anti social behaviour 270
- Shoplifting 193
- Public order 159
- Other theft 140
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE12 9 residents
- 9,377
Age bands in NE12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
1,571 residents
952 residents
2,560 residents
2,757 residents
2,115 residents
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.
GP practices
24
within 5 km straight-line
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
1.0 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
1.4 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
1.4 km
REGENT MEDICAL CENTRE
RIDLEY HOUSE, HENRY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1DQ
ODS code A86028
1.5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
1.5 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
1.6 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
1.7 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
2.3 km
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
2.6 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
2.8 km
PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHOPPING CENTRE, FAWDON PARK ROAD, FAWDON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 2PE
ODS code A86008
2.9 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
3.4 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
3.8 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
3.8 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
3.8 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
3.8 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
3.9 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
4.0 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
4.4 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Salters Lane-Salters Bridge
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.1 miles
Salters Lane-Salters Bridge
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.2 miles
West Farm Avenue-Salters Lane
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.2 miles
West Farm Avenue-Salters Lane
BCT · Longbenton
- 0.2 miles
South Gosforth Roundabout
BCT · South Gosforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 019C, 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
13,882 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,796 published events cover 12 months, averaging 149.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 480 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.