Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Chopwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 436 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE17 7BL
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 7BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
- Latitude
- 54.913969
- Longitude
- -1.819127
- British National Grid easting
- 411,694
- British National Grid northing
- 557,710
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
- E00041475
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 029D · E01035624
- 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
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 436 m
Chopwell Primary School
Community school
- 2.6 km
Ebchester CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.8 km
High Spen Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 418
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 132
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Shoplifting 37
- Other theft 27
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
2
within 5 km
CHOPWELL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SOUTH ROAD, CHOPWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7BU
ODS code A85024
742 m
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
1.2 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
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road-Chopwell Farm
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road-Chopwell Farm
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road-Moorland View
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.2 miles
Mill Road-Pear Tree Terrace
BCT · Blackhall Mill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 029D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,478 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
418 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 132 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.