Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 8 secondary schools. Fordley Primary School is the nearest published school at 247 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE23 7AB
Weetslade · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Cramlington
- Ward
- Weetslade
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth
- Postcode district
- NE23
- Postcode sector
- NE23 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE23 7AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE23
- Postcode sector
- NE23 7
- Latitude
- 55.057137
- Longitude
- -1.592372
- British National Grid easting
- 426,138
- British National Grid northing
- 573,703
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Weetslade · E05015883
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth · E14001183
- Output area
- E00043559
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 002D · E01008578
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 002 · E02001739
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 NE23
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Spar Stores, Flat, West View, Dudley, Cramlington, NE23 7AB | 17 November 2020 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 8
- 247 m
Fordley Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.6 km
Burradon Community Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.7 km
North Gosforth Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 518
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 205
- Anti social behaviour 96
- Shoplifting 40
- Public order 39
- Criminal damage and arson 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- NE23 7 residents
- 10,219
0 female, 1 male
Age bands in NE23 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
1,475 residents
1,095 residents
2,348 residents
3,020 residents
2,443 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE23 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
11
within 5 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
2.3 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
2.6 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
2.9 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
2.9 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
2.9 km
FORUM FAMILY PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, FORUM WAY, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6QN
ODS code A84038
3.0 km
NPC CRAMLINGTON
FORUM WAY, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6QN
ODS code A84025
3.0 km
VILLAGE MEDICAL GROUP
DUDLEY LANE, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 6US
ODS code A84030
3.1 km
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
4.1 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
4.4 km
NPC ELSDON AVENUE
ELSDON AVENUE, SEATON DELAVAL, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 0BW
ODS code A84619
4.5 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fern Drive - Market Street
BCT · Dudley
- 0.0 miles
Fern Drive - Market Street
BCT · Dudley
- 0.1 miles
Dudley Lane-Meadowbank
BCT · Dudley
- 0.1 miles
Dudley Lane-Meadowbank
BCT · Dudley
- 0.1 miles
Weetslade Road - Watson Avenue
BCT · Dudley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 002D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,510 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
518 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 205 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.