Schools
132 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 16 secondary schools. Royal Grammar School is the nearest published school at 314 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE2 1DF
Ouseburn · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ouseburn
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North
- Postcode district
- NE2
- Postcode sector
- NE2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE2 1DF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE2
- Postcode sector
- NE2 1
- Latitude
- 54.980391
- Longitude
- -1.604930
- British National Grid easting
- 425,384
- British National Grid northing
- 565,158
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Ouseburn · E05016366
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North · E14001379
- Output area
- E00175555
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 034D · E01008407
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 034 · E02007097
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 NE2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 132
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 16
- 314 m
Royal Grammar School
Other independent school
- 347 m
Newcastle Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 436 m
University of Northumbria At Newcastle
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,423
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,205
- Shoplifting 2,003
- Anti social behaviour 1,607
- Other theft 868
- Public order 867
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- NE2 1 residents
- 12,464
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in NE2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 3.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 63.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 8.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.6%
452 residents
7,325 residents
2,013 residents
973 residents
763 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE2 1 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.
GP practices
36
within 5 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
564 m
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
860 m
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
1.4 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
1.6 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
1.8 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
1.9 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
1.9 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
2.1 km
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
2.2 km
DILSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
23 DILSTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 5AB
ODS code Y00184
2.3 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
2.5 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
2.6 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
2.6 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
2.7 km
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
2.7 km
PROSPECT MEDICAL CENTRE
501 WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8AY
ODS code A86004
2.7 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
2.9 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
2.9 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
2.9 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 36 matching practices.
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
Sandyford Rd-Army Reserve Centre
BCT · Newcastle upon Tyne
- 0.0 miles
Sandyford Road-Army Reserve Centre
BCT · Newcastle upon Tyne
- 0.1 miles
Sandyford
BCT · Shieldfield
- 0.1 miles
Sandyford
BCT · Shieldfield
- 0.2 miles
Sandyford
BCT · Jesmond Vale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 034D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,556 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Recorded crime
11,423 published events cover 12 months, averaging 951.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,205 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.