Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 15 secondary schools. Moorbridge is the nearest published school at 665 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE27 0JW
Backworth & Holystone · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 0JW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE27
- Postcode sector
- NE27 0
- Latitude
- 55.044400
- Longitude
- -1.508400
- British National Grid easting
- 431,512
- British National Grid northing
- 572,320
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
- E00166157
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 007F · E01035626
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 007 · E02001744
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 15
- 665 m
Moorbridge
Pupil referral unit
- 1.2 km
Wellfield Middle School
Foundation school
- 1.2 km
South Wellfield First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 919
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 319
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Shoplifting 111
- Criminal damage and arson 103
- Other theft 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE27 0 residents
- 16,348
0 female, 2 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% 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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHUMBERLAND PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHIREMOOR CENTRE, EARSDON ROAD, SHIREMOOR, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE27 0HJ
ODS code A87022
756 m
BEAUMONT PARK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 35 HEPSCOTT DRIVE, BEAUMONT PARK, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9XJ
ODS code A87011
2.3 km
BRIDGE AND MONKSEATON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CAULDWELL AVENUE, MONKSEATON, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9PH
ODS code A87020
2.4 km
NPC ELSDON AVENUE
ELSDON AVENUE, SEATON DELAVAL, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 0BW
ODS code A84619
3.1 km
MARINE AVENUE MEDICAL CTR
MARINE AVENUE HEALTH CENTRE, MARINE AVENUE, WHITLEY BAY, NE26 3LW
ODS code A87008
3.3 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
3.3 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
3.6 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
3.6 km
WHITLEY BAY HEALTH CENTRE
WHITLEY ROAD, WHITLEY BAY, NE26 2ND
ODS code A87005
4.4 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
4.6 km
COLLINGWOOD HEALTH GROUP
HAWKEYS LANE, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0SF
ODS code A87004
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Earsdon Road-Park Lane
BCT · Shiremoor
- 0.4 miles
Park Lane-Clara Avenue
BCT · Shiremoor
- 0.4 miles
Garden Terrace
BCT · Earsdon
- 0.4 miles
Garden Terrace
BCT · Earsdon
- 0.4 miles
Earsdon Road-Middle School
BCT · Shiremoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 007F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,559 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
919 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 319 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.