Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chopwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 698 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE17 7AL
Chopwell & Rowlands Gill · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE17 7AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
- Latitude
- 54.923757
- Longitude
- -1.814309
- British National Grid easting
- 412,000
- British National Grid northing
- 558,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Chopwell & Rowlands Gill · E05016549
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00041498
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 029C · E01008186
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 029 · E02007094
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 NE17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 698 m
Chopwell Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
High Spen Primary School
Community school
- 3.6 km
Highfield Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 361
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 120
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Criminal damage and arson 40
- Shoplifting 37
- Public order 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE17 7 residents
- 4,563
Age bands in NE17 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
719 residents
394 residents
1,148 residents
1,279 residents
1,056 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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
CHOPWELL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SOUTH ROAD, CHOPWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7BU
ODS code A85024
445 m
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
2.2 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
4.6 km
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
4.8 km
PRUDHOE MEDICAL GROUP
KEPWELL BANK TOP, PRUDHOE, NE42 5PW
ODS code A84016
4.9 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hall Farm
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 miles
Hall Road-West View
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.2 miles
Derwent Street
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.3 miles
Derwent Street
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.3 miles
South Road
BCT · Chopwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 029C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,066 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Recorded crime
361 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 120 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.