Whickham South & Sunniside · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Byermoor
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Burnopfield Primary School
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Rowlands Gill Community Primary School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
2 female, 2 male
793 residents
438 residents
1,186 residents
1,450 residents
1,123 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE16 6 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
2.2 km
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
2.4 km
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
3.9 km
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
4.4 km
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
4.4 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.
Fellside Road-Byermoor Farm
BCT · Crookgate
Fellside Road-Byermoor Farm
BCT · Crookgate
Lobley Hill Road-Sacred Heart
BCT · Crookgate
Lobley Hill Road-Strathmore Crescent
BCT · Crookgate
Lobley Hill Road-Ravensworth Crescent
BCT · Crookgate
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 019F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,841 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
20 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Byermoor is the nearest published school at 558 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
60 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.