Schools
94 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 16 secondary schools. Churchill Academy is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE28 7TN
Howdon · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Howdon
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
- Postcode district
- NE28
- Postcode sector
- NE28 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE28 7TN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE28
- Postcode sector
- NE28 7
- Latitude
- 55.005160
- Longitude
- -1.506972
- British National Grid easting
- 431,634
- British National Grid northing
- 567,954
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Howdon · E05015871
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend · E14001378
- Output area
- E00043186
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 026D · E01008512
- Middle layer super output area
- North Tyneside 026 · E02001763
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 94
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 16
- 0 m
Churchill Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 14 m
Churchill Community College
Foundation school
- 155 m
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,660
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 926
- Shoplifting 402
- Anti social behaviour 337
- Criminal damage and arson 267
- Public order 198
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE28 7 residents
- 8,569
Age bands in NE28 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15%
1,497 residents
967 residents
2,399 residents
2,190 residents
1,241 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+
- 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
26
within 5 km straight-line
BEWICKE MEDICAL CENTRE
51 TYNEMOUTH ROAD, HOWDEN, WALLSEND, NE28 0AD
ODS code A87013
1.1 km
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
1.7 km
REDBURN PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
15 STATION ROAD, PERCY MAIN, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 6HT
ODS code A87030
2.1 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
2.4 km
EAST WING PRACTICE
EAST WING SURGERY, PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88613
2.9 km
THE G.P.SUITE
PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITALS, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88025
2.9 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
PARK ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5SE
ODS code A88004
3.1 km
ALBERT ROAD SURGERY
118 ALBERT ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5AG
ODS code A88010
3.2 km
COLLINGWOOD HEALTH GROUP
HAWKEYS LANE, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0SF
ODS code A87004
3.3 km
ELLISON VIEW SURGERY
THE GLEN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88012
3.6 km
THE GLEN MEDICAL GROUP
30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88022
3.6 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
12-28 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88001
3.6 km
NPC NORTH TYNESIDE - SPRING TERRACE
SPRING TERRACE, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0HD
ODS code A87002
3.6 km
NORTHUMBERLAND PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHIREMOOR CENTRE, EARSDON ROAD, SHIREMOOR, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE27 0HJ
ODS code A87022
3.6 km
PRIORY MEDICAL GROUP
19 ALBION ROAD, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0HT
ODS code A87009
3.7 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
3.9 km
BRIDGE AND MONKSEATON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CAULDWELL AVENUE, MONKSEATON, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 9PH
ODS code A87020
4.1 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
4.2 km
WALKER MEDICAL GROUP
CHURCH WALK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 3BS
ODS code A86011
4.4 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Churchill Community College
BCT · Howdon
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Street-School
BCT · Howdon
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Street-Engine Inn Road
BCT · Howdon
- 0.1 miles
Coniston Rd-Matfen Gardens
BCT · Howdon
- 0.1 miles
Coast Road-Gibson Street
BCT · Howdon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 026D, 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
2,754 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
- 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
2,660 published events cover 12 months, averaging 221.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 926 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.