Property market
The five-year median is £212,000 from 1 recorded sale in NE16 4TB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Gateshead is £158,254 in June 2026, up 7.8% year on year.
NE16 4TB
Dunston Hill & Whickham East · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE16 4TB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 4
- Latitude
- 54.948467
- Longitude
- -1.669767
- British National Grid easting
- 421,251
- British National Grid northing
- 561,584
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Dunston Hill & Whickham East · E05016553
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham · E14001244
- Output area
- E00041918
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 009C · E01008264
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 009 · E02001690
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 NE16
Property
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 13, Cromwell Road, Whickham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 4TB | 27 June 2025 | £212,000 |
| 23, Cromwell Road, Whickham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 4TB | 3 July 2020 | £195,000 |
| 7, Cromwell Road, Whickham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 4TB | 5 June 2020 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 78
- Primary
- 50
- Secondary
- 7
- 355 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whickham
Academy converter
- 541 m
Swalwell Primary School
Community school
- 785 m
Front Street Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,544
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 397
- Shoplifting 331
- Anti social behaviour 214
- Public order 123
- Criminal damage and arson 110
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 51
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- NE16 4 residents
- 6,462
24 female, 27 male
Age bands in NE16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
881 residents
506 residents
1,299 residents
1,783 residents
1,592 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE16 4 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
26
within 5 km
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
589 m
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
2.0 km
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
2.4 km
BETTS AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
2 BETTS AVENUE, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 6TQ
ODS code A86030
2.8 km
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
2.9 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
3.0 km
WEST ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
170 WEST ROAD, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 9QB
ODS code A86012
3.2 km
PROSPECT MEDICAL CENTRE
501 WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8AY
ODS code A86004
3.2 km
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
SHIBDON ROAD, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 5AE
ODS code A85010
3.3 km
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
3.3 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
3.4 km
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
3.5 km
OLDWELL SURGERY
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
3.5 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
3.6 km
DILSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
23 DILSTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 5AB
ODS code Y00184
3.7 km
FENHAM HALL SURGERY
FENHAM HALL DRIVE, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 9XD
ODS code A86031
4.1 km
DENTON TURRET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 KENLEY ROAD, SLATYFORD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2UY
ODS code A86601
4.1 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
4.1 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
4.3 km
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 26 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
- 0.2 miles
St Mary's Catholic School
BCT · Whickham
- 0.2 miles
Market Lane-Cemetery
BCT · Swalwell
- 0.2 miles
Market Lane-Cemetery
BCT · Swalwell
- 0.2 miles
Front Street-Chase Park
BCT · Whickham
- 0.2 miles
Front Street - School Lane
BCT · Whickham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 009C, 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
33,189 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
78 open schools are in scope, including 50 primary and 7 secondary schools. St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whickham is the nearest published school at 355 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,544 published events cover 12 months, averaging 128.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 397 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.