Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chopwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 287 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE17 7BB
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 7BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
- Latitude
- 54.920164
- Longitude
- -1.815885
- British National Grid easting
- 411,900
- British National Grid northing
- 558,400
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
- 12
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 287 m
Chopwell Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
High Spen Primary School
Community school
- 3.3 km
Ebchester CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 383
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 122
- Anti social behaviour 78
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- 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
3
within 5 km
CHOPWELL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SOUTH ROAD, CHOPWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7BU
ODS code A85024
159 m
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
1.8 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Derwent Street
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.0 miles
Derwent Street
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 miles
South Road
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 miles
Derwent Street
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 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
383 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 122 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.