Property market
The five-year median is £97,000 from 1 recorded sale in NE21 5RN. 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.
NE21 5RN
Winlaton & High Spen · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Blaydon-On-Tyne
- Ward
- Winlaton & High Spen
- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- NE21
- Postcode sector
- NE21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE21 5RN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE21
- Postcode sector
- NE21 5
- Latitude
- 54.953086
- Longitude
- -1.727610
- British National Grid easting
- 417,544
- British National Grid northing
- 562,082
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Winlaton & High Spen · E05016566
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00042006
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 004E · E01008280
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 004 · E02001685
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 NE21
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Rectory Lane, Blaydon-On-Tyne, NE21 5RN | 19 November 2021 | £97,000 |
| 1, Rectory Lane, Blaydon-On-Tyne, NE21 5RN | 9 August 2018 | £86,500 |
| 3, Rectory Lane, Blaydon-On-Tyne, NE21 5RN | 31 July 2013 | £77,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 7
- 335 m
West Lane Primary School
Community school
- 669 m
Parkhead Community Primary School
Community school
- 968 m
St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,065
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 323
- Anti social behaviour 191
- Criminal damage and arson 125
- Shoplifting 99
- Vehicle crime 94
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 9.0
- NE21 5 residents
- 4,981
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in NE21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
956 residents
542 residents
1,462 residents
1,369 residents
915 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE21 5 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+
- 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
13
within 5 km
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
346 m
OLDWELL SURGERY
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
346 m
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
SHIBDON ROAD, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 5AE
ODS code A85010
1.6 km
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
3.3 km
NEWBURN SURGERY
4 NEWBURN ROAD, NEWBURN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 8LX
ODS code A86038
3.8 km
BETTS AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
2 BETTS AVENUE, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 6TQ
ODS code A86030
4.0 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
4.1 km
DENTON TURRET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 KENLEY ROAD, SLATYFORD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2UY
ODS code A86601
4.3 km
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
4.7 km
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
4.8 km
DENTON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DENTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, WEST DENTON WAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2QW
ODS code A86013
4.8 km
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CT, TILLMOUTH PK RD,THROCKLEY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 9PA
ODS code A86026
4.9 km
PARKWAY MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL HOUSE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HILLHEAD PARKWAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 1LJ
ODS code A86022
4.9 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
Scotland Head-West Lane
BCT · Winlaton
- 0.1 miles
Gibside View
BCT · Winlaton
- 0.1 miles
Scotland Head-St Pauls Church
BCT · Winlaton
- 0.1 miles
West Lane-Scotland Head
BCT · Winlaton
- 0.1 miles
Gibside View
BCT · Winlaton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 004E, 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
3,517 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
56 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 7 secondary schools. West Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 335 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,065 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 323 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.