Property market
The five-year median is £144,500 from 2 recorded sales in NE16 6HX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for County Durham is £138,148 in June 2026, up 7.0% year on year.
NE16 6HX
Derwent & Pont Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE16 6HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE16
- Postcode sector
- NE16 6
- Latitude
- 54.905933
- Longitude
- -1.738782
- British National Grid easting
- 416,848
- British National Grid northing
- 556,832
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Derwent & Pont Valley · E05016173
- Parish or community
- E43000254
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00104690
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 001C · E01020636
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 001 · E02004297
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, Myrtle Grove, Burnopfield, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 6HX | 6 December 2024 | £143,000 |
| 2, Myrtle Grove, Burnopfield, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 6HX | 11 November 2024 | £146,000 |
| 1, Myrtle Grove, Burnopfield, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 6HX | 27 April 2018 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 259 m
Burnopfield Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Byermoor
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Highfield Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 232
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 64
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Shoplifting 47
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Vehicle crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- NE16 6 residents
- 5,086
23 female, 22 male
Age bands in NE16 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
793 residents
438 residents
1,186 residents
1,450 residents
1,123 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% 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.
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CEDARS MEDICAL GROUP
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
114 m
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
4.5 km
TANFIELD VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT STREET, TANFIELD, STANLEY, DH9 8AD
ODS code A83016
4.7 km
STANLEY MEDICAL GROUP
STANLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CLIFFORD ROAD, STANLEY, DH9 0AB
ODS code A83023
4.8 km
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Burnopfield
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Burnopfield
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Burnopfield
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Burnopfield
- 0.2 miles
Thornhill Gardens
BCT · Lintz
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 001C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,328 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Burnopfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 259 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
232 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 64 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.