Schools
106 open schools are in scope, including 65 primary and 16 secondary schools. Benfield School is the nearest published school at 655 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE28 8SU
Wallsend North · North Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wallsend North
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
- Postcode district
- NE28
- Postcode sector
- NE28 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE28 8SU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE28
- Postcode sector
- NE28 8
- Latitude
- 54.994373
- Longitude
- -1.552682
- British National Grid easting
- 428,718
- British National Grid northing
- 566,734
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- North Tyneside · E08000022
- Electoral ward
- Wallsend North · E05015882
- Parish or community
- E43000176
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend · E14001378
- Output area
- E00043322
- Lower layer super output area
- North Tyneside 030B · E01008535
- 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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 106
- Primary
- 65
- Secondary
- 16
- 655 m
Benfield School
Academy converter
- 666 m
Western Community Primary School
Foundation school
- 746 m
St Columba's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,679
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 877
- Anti social behaviour 387
- Criminal damage and arson 308
- Shoplifting 228
- Public order 193
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE28 8 residents
- 9,167
Age bands in NE28 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,283 residents
867 residents
2,263 residents
2,694 residents
2,100 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.
GP practices
31
within 5 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
799 m
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
1.1 km
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
1.5 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
1.6 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
2.1 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
2.3 km
WALKER MEDICAL GROUP
CHURCH WALK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 3BS
ODS code A86011
2.5 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
2.5 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
2.7 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
2.8 km
ELLISON VIEW SURGERY
THE GLEN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88012
3.0 km
THE GLEN MEDICAL GROUP
30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88022
3.0 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
12-28 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88001
3.0 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
3.0 km
ST. ANTHONY'S HEALTH CENTRE
ST. ANTHONY'S MED GROUP, ST. ANTHONY'S ROAD, WALKER, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 2NN
ODS code A86040
3.1 km
BEWICKE MEDICAL CENTRE
51 TYNEMOUTH ROAD, HOWDEN, WALLSEND, NE28 0AD
ODS code A87013
3.4 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
3.6 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
PARK ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5SE
ODS code A88004
4.0 km
EAST WING PRACTICE
EAST WING SURGERY, PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88613
4.2 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 31 matching practices.
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
- 0.3 miles
Coast Road-Home Park
BCT · Wallsend
- 0.3 miles
West Street - Cheshire Gardens
BCT · Wallsend
- 0.3 miles
West Street - Dorset Avenue
BCT · Wallsend
- 0.3 miles
West Street - Dorset Avenue
BCT · Wallsend
- 0.3 miles
West Street - Cheshire Gardens
BCT · Wallsend
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Tyneside 030B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,128 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- 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
2,679 published events cover 12 months, averaging 223.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 877 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.