Property market
The five-year median is £330,000 from 1 recorded sale in NE12 9SU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for North Tyneside is £203,813 in June 2026, up 6.0% year on year.
NE12 9SU
Backworth & Holystone · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE12 9SU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE12
- Postcode sector
- NE12 9
- Latitude
- 55.024370
- Longitude
- -1.531107
- British National Grid easting
- 430,076
- British National Grid northing
- 570,081
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Backworth & Holystone · E05015865
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth · E14001183
- Output area
- E00166143
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 018F · E01035627
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 018 · E02001755
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
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 21, Whitley Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 9SU | 26 July 2022 | £330,000 |
| 15, Whitley Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 9SU | 30 April 2021 | £108,500 |
| 21, Whitley Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 9SU | 23 June 2020 | £93,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 75
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 16
- 524 m
Holystone Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Parkside House School
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Hadrian Park Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,181
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 316
- Shoplifting 224
- Anti social behaviour 183
- Criminal damage and arson 92
- Public order 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- NE12 9 residents
- 9,377
19 female, 17 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE12 9 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
17
within 5 km
NORTHUMBERLAND PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHIREMOOR CENTRE, EARSDON ROAD, SHIREMOOR, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE27 0HJ
ODS code A87022
2.2 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
2.4 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
2.6 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
2.6 km
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
3.1 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
3.4 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
3.6 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
3.6 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
3.7 km
BEWICKE MEDICAL CENTRE
51 TYNEMOUTH ROAD, HOWDEN, WALLSEND, NE28 0AD
ODS code A87013
3.7 km
BRIDGE AND MONKSEATON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CAULDWELL AVENUE, MONKSEATON, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9PH
ODS code A87020
4.0 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
4.4 km
REDBURN PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
15 STATION ROAD, PERCY MAIN, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 6HT
ODS code A87030
4.4 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
4.5 km
BEAUMONT PARK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 35 HEPSCOTT DRIVE, BEAUMONT PARK, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9XJ
ODS code A87011
4.5 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
4.9 km
COLLINGWOOD HEALTH GROUP
HAWKEYS LANE, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0SF
ODS code A87004
5.0 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
Whitley Road-Wesley Way
BCT · Holystone
- 0.1 miles
Whitley Road-St Aidens Avenue
BCT · Holystone
- 0.1 miles
Whitley Road-Bede Close
BCT · Holystone
- 0.2 miles
Great Lime Road-Whitley Road
BCT · Palmersville
- 0.2 miles
Great Lime Road-Whitley Road
BCT · Palmersville
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 018F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,496 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
Schools
75 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 16 secondary schools. Holystone Primary School is the nearest published school at 524 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,181 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 316 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.