Property market
The five-year median is £529,500 from 11 recorded sales in NE16 5DQ. 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 5DQ
Whickham South & Sunniside · 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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE16 5DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 5
- Latitude
- 54.928657
- Longitude
- -1.668072
- British National Grid easting
- 421,370
- British National Grid northing
- 559,380
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Whickham South & Sunniside · E05016564
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham · E14001244
- Output area
- E00041967
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 019E · E01008272
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 019 · E02001700
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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Shamrock Lane, Sunniside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 5DQ | 24 September 2025 | £399,500 |
| 8, Shamrock Lane, Sunniside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 5DQ | 19 August 2025 | £525,000 |
| 10, Shamrock Lane, Sunniside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 5DQ | 18 July 2025 | £525,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 49
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.2 km
Washingwell Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Clover Hill Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 317
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 101
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Shoplifting 26
- Other crime 25
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+
- 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
779 m
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
2.0 km
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
3.3 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
4.2 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
4.5 km
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
4.5 km
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
4.5 km
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
4.6 km
OLDWELL SURGERY
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
4.6 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
4.9 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
4.9 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
4.9 km
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
SHIBDON ROAD, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 5AE
ODS code A85010
4.9 km
BETTS AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
2 BETTS AVENUE, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 6TQ
ODS code A86030
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gateshead Road-Pennyfine Road
BCT · Sunniside
- 0.2 miles
Gateshead Road-Pennyfine Road
BCT · Sunniside
- 0.2 miles
Watergate Bank-Namaste
BCT · Sunniside
- 0.3 miles
Watergate Bank-Namaste
BCT · Sunniside
- 0.3 miles
Sunniside Road-Hole Lane
BCT · Sunniside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 019E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,824 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 3 secondary schools. Washingwell Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
317 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 101 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.