Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 1 recorded sale in NE27 0GS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for North Tyneside is £203,813 in June 2026, up 6.0% year on year.
NE27 0GS
Backworth & Holystone · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth
- Postcode district
- NE27
- Postcode sector
- NE27 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE27 0GS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2016
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE27
- Postcode sector
- NE27 0
- Latitude
- 55.035169
- Longitude
- -1.525880
- British National Grid easting
- 430,402
- British National Grid northing
- 571,285
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Backworth & Holystone · E05015865
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth · E14001183
- Output area
- E00190047
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 011E · E01032647
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 011 · E02001748
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 NE27
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Field Close, Backworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE27 0GS | 2 May 2024 | £450,000 |
| 2, Field Close, Backworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE27 0GS | 20 January 2017 | £289,950 |
| 3, Field Close, Backworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE27 0GS | 16 December 2016 | £293,700 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 73
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 16
- 378 m
Parkside House School
Other independent special school
- 752 m
Holystone Primary School
Community school
- 907 m
Backworth Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,262
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 399
- Anti social behaviour 201
- Shoplifting 161
- Criminal damage and arson 131
- Public order 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- NE27 0 residents
- 16,348
5 female, 5 male
Age bands in NE27 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.8%
3,326 residents
1,515 residents
5,148 residents
3,945 residents
2,054 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE27 0 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
15
within 5 km
NORTHUMBERLAND PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHIREMOOR CENTRE, EARSDON ROAD, SHIREMOOR, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE27 0HJ
ODS code A87022
1.3 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
2.5 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
2.5 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
3.1 km
BRIDGE AND MONKSEATON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CAULDWELL AVENUE, MONKSEATON, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9PH
ODS code A87020
3.4 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
3.5 km
BEAUMONT PARK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 35 HEPSCOTT DRIVE, BEAUMONT PARK, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9XJ
ODS code A87011
3.6 km
NPC ELSDON AVENUE
ELSDON AVENUE, SEATON DELAVAL, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 0BW
ODS code A84619
3.9 km
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
4.3 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
4.4 km
MARINE AVENUE MEDICAL CTR
MARINE AVENUE HEALTH CENTRE, MARINE AVENUE, WHITLEY BAY, NE26 3LW
ODS code A87008
4.5 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
4.5 km
BEWICKE MEDICAL CENTRE
51 TYNEMOUTH ROAD, HOWDEN, WALLSEND, NE28 0AD
ODS code A87013
4.6 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
4.7 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
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
- 0.2 miles
Hotspur North-Brownsman Court
BCT · Backworth
- 0.2 miles
Hotspur North-Brownsman Court
BCT · Backworth
- 0.2 miles
Hotspur North-Briardene Way
BCT · Backworth
- 0.2 miles
Hotspur North-Briardene Way
BCT · Backworth
- 0.2 miles
Station Road-Havelock Road
BCT · Backworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 011E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,215 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Schools
73 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 16 secondary schools. Parkside House School is the nearest published school at 378 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,262 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 399 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.