Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Walbottle Academy is the nearest published school at 804 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE15 9QB
Throckley, Walbottle & Newburn · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Hexham
- Postcode district
- NE15
- Postcode sector
- NE15 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE15 9QB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2009
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE15
- Postcode sector
- NE15 9
- Latitude
- 54.992128
- Longitude
- -1.751417
- British National Grid easting
- 416,004
- British National Grid northing
- 566,421
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Throckley, Walbottle & Newburn · E05016368
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Hexham · E14001285
- Output area
- E00042628
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 014B · E01008401
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 014 · E02001721
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 NE15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 804 m
Walbottle Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 826 m
Throckley Primary School
Academy converter
- 950 m
Walbottle Village Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 843
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 318
- Anti social behaviour 181
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Public order 70
- Burglary 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE15 9 residents
- 7,159
Age bands in NE15 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
1,183 residents
697 residents
1,630 residents
1,776 residents
1,391 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CT, TILLMOUTH PK RD,THROCKLEY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 9PA
ODS code A86026
484 m
NEWBURN SURGERY
4 NEWBURN ROAD, NEWBURN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 8LX
ODS code A86038
877 m
PARKWAY MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL HOUSE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HILLHEAD PARKWAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 1LJ
ODS code A86022
2.4 km
DENTON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DENTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, WEST DENTON WAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2QW
ODS code A86013
3.4 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
3.7 km
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
SHIBDON ROAD, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 5AE
ODS code A85010
4.0 km
WESTERHOPE MEDICAL GROUP
377-377A STAMFORDHAM ROAD, WESTERHOPE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2LH
ODS code A86025
4.2 km
DENTON TURRET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 KENLEY ROAD, SLATYFORD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2UY
ODS code A86601
4.3 km
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
4.5 km
OLDWELL SURGERY
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Newburn Road-Broomy Hill Road
BCT · Throckley
- 0.1 miles
Newburn Road-Appian Place
BCT · Throckley
- 0.1 miles
Hallow Drive-The Causeway
BCT · Throckley
- 0.1 miles
Hallow Drive-Fosse Law
BCT · Throckley
- 0.1 miles
Hallow Drive-The Causeway
BCT · Throckley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 014B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,608 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
843 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 318 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.