Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 5 secondary schools. Whickham School is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE16 5AR
Whickham North & Swalwell · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE16 5AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 5
- Latitude
- 54.940519
- Longitude
- -1.684816
- British National Grid easting
- 420,291
- British National Grid northing
- 560,695
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Whickham North & Swalwell · E05016563
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham · E14001244
- Output area
- E00041977
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 017E · E01008275
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 017 · E02001698
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 5
- 1 m
Whickham School
Academy converter
- 316 m
Fellside Community Primary School
Community school
- 646 m
Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 850
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 273
- Anti social behaviour 161
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Public order 69
- Burglary 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE16 5 residents
- 10,309
Age bands in NE16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.4%
1,618 residents
869 residents
2,165 residents
2,777 residents
3,251 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
16
within 5 km
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
728 m
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
2.1 km
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
3.0 km
OLDWELL SURGERY
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
3.0 km
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
SHIBDON ROAD, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 5AE
ODS code A85010
3.2 km
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
3.2 km
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
3.5 km
BETTS AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
2 BETTS AVENUE, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 6TQ
ODS code A86030
3.7 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
4.3 km
WEST ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
170 WEST ROAD, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 9QB
ODS code A86012
4.4 km
PROSPECT MEDICAL CENTRE
501 WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8AY
ODS code A86004
4.5 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
4.6 km
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
4.6 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
4.7 km
DENTON TURRET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 KENLEY ROAD, SLATYFORD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2UY
ODS code A86601
4.8 km
DILSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
23 DILSTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 5AB
ODS code Y00184
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Whickham School
BCT · Whickham
- 0.1 miles
Fellside Road-Runnymede Road
BCT · Whickham
- 0.1 miles
Fellside Road-Runnymede Road
BCT · Whickham
- 0.2 miles
Parkway-Fellside Road
BCT · Whickham
- 0.2 miles
Oakfield Road-Amberly Grove
BCT · Whickham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 017E, 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
33,233 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
- 0
- 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
850 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 273 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.