Property market
The five-year median is £174,995 from 35 recorded sales in NE17 7BW. 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 7BW
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 7BW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE17
- Postcode sector
- NE17 7
- Latitude
- 54.911361
- Longitude
- -1.818109
- British National Grid easting
- 411,760
- British National Grid northing
- 557,420
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
- E00041482
- 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
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, George Close, Chopwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7BW | 20 October 2025 | £200,000 |
| 28, George Close, Chopwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7BW | 14 October 2025 | £249,995 |
| 26, George Close, Chopwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7BW | 30 June 2025 | £179,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 716 m
Chopwell Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Ebchester CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.0 km
Bishop Ian Ramsey CofE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 414
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 130
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- 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.
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
OAKFIELDS HEALTH GROUP
HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7SB
ODS code A83618
866 m
CHOPWELL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SOUTH ROAD, CHOPWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7BU
ODS code A85024
984 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road-Pear Tree Terrace
BCT · Blackhall Mill
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road-East Terrace
BCT · Blackhall Mill
- 0.2 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Chopwell
- 0.2 miles
Mill Road-West Crescent
BCT · Blackhall Mill
- 0.2 miles
Mill Road-Moorland View
BCT · Chopwell
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
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Chopwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 716 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
414 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 130 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.