Property market
The five-year median is £206,500 from 4 recorded sales in NE17 7BJ. 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.
NE17 7BJ
Chopwell & Rowlands Gill · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE17 7BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
- Latitude
- 54.922361
- Longitude
- -1.812334
- British National Grid easting
- 412,127
- British National Grid northing
- 558,645
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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, West Farm Drive, Chopwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7BJ | 15 December 2025 | £190,000 |
| 12, West Farm Drive, Chopwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7BJ | 10 January 2025 | £223,000 |
| 5, West Farm Drive, Chopwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7BJ | 5 September 2024 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 612 m
Chopwell Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
High Spen Primary School
Community school
- 3.4 km
Highfield Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 357
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 116
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Shoplifting 37
- Public order 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- NE17 7 residents
- 4,563
6 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE17 7 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+
- 55.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 55.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 55.6%
- 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
CHOPWELL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SOUTH ROAD, CHOPWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7BU
ODS code A85024
295 m
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
2.1 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE, FRONT STREET, PRUDHOE, NE42 5DQ
ODS code A84035
4.8 km
THE ADDERLANE SURGERY
ADDERLANE ROAD, WEST WYLAM, PRUDHOE, NE42 5HR
ODS code A84614
5.0 km
CEDARS MEDICAL GROUP
CEDAR CRESCENT, BURNOPFIELD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 6HU
ODS code A83038
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
Hall Farm
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.0 miles
Hall Road-West View
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.2 miles
Derwent Street
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.2 miles
South Road
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.2 miles
Derwent Street
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.
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
- 0
- 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
13 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chopwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 612 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
357 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 116 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.