Schools
98 open schools are in scope, including 67 primary and 13 secondary schools. Carville Academy is the nearest published school at 448 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE28 6SS
Wallsend Central · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wallsend Central
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
- Postcode district
- NE28
- Postcode sector
- NE28 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE28 6SS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2005
- Terminated
- 1 July 2022
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE28
- Postcode sector
- NE28 6
- Latitude
- 54.989894
- Longitude
- -1.532571
- British National Grid easting
- 430,008
- British National Grid northing
- 566,244
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Wallsend Central · E05015881
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend · E14001378
- Output area
- E00043532
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 030E · E01008575
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 030 · E02001767
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 NE28
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 98
- Primary
- 67
- Secondary
- 13
- 448 m
Carville Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 603 m
Richardson Dees Primary School
Foundation school
- 715 m
Western Community Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,607
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 949
- Anti social behaviour 357
- Criminal damage and arson 288
- Public order 190
- Other theft 160
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE28 6 residents
- 5,409
Age bands in NE28 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- 917 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- 635 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.9%
- 1,821 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- 1,411 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 13.5%
- 749 residents
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
23
within 5 km straight-line
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
351 m
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
745 m
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
1.9 km
ELLISON VIEW SURGERY
THE GLEN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88012
1.9 km
THE GLEN MEDICAL GROUP
30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88022
1.9 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
12-28 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88001
1.9 km
WALKER MEDICAL GROUP
CHURCH WALK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 3BS
ODS code A86011
2.1 km
BEWICKE MEDICAL CENTRE
51 TYNEMOUTH ROAD, HOWDEN, WALLSEND, NE28 0AD
ODS code A87013
2.2 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
PARK ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5SE
ODS code A88004
2.7 km
EAST WING PRACTICE
EAST WING SURGERY, PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88613
2.8 km
THE G.P.SUITE
PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITALS, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88025
2.8 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
2.8 km
ALBERT ROAD SURGERY
118 ALBERT ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5AG
ODS code A88010
2.9 km
ST. ANTHONY'S HEALTH CENTRE
ST. ANTHONY'S MED GROUP, ST. ANTHONY'S ROAD, WALKER, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 2NN
ODS code A86040
3.0 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
3.3 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
3.5 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
3.5 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
3.6 km
REDBURN PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
15 STATION ROAD, PERCY MAIN, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 6HT
ODS code A87030
3.9 km
PELAW MEDICAL PRACTICE
7-8 CROXDALE TERRACE, PELAW, GATESHEAD, NE10 0RR
ODS code A85611
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 26 m
Wallsend (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
PLT · Wallsend
- 34 m
Wallsend (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
PLT · Wallsend
- 35 m
Wallsend (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
MET · Wallsend
- 50 m
Interchange
BCS · Wallsend
- 54 m
Interchange
BCS · Wallsend
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 030E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,416 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 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
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,607 published events cover 12 months, averaging 217 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 949 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.