Schools
84 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 13 secondary schools. Grange First School is the nearest published school at 459 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE3 2JN
Fawdon & West Gosforth · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North
- Postcode district
- NE3
- Postcode sector
- NE3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE3 2JN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE3
- Postcode sector
- NE3 2
- Latitude
- 55.017478
- Longitude
- -1.625085
- British National Grid easting
- 424,072
- British National Grid northing
- 569,278
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Fawdon & West Gosforth · E05016356
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North · E14001379
- Output area
- E00042388
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 002D · E01008357
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 002 · E02001709
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 NE3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 84
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 13
- 459 m
Grange First School
Foundation school
- 490 m
Gosforth Park First School
Foundation school
- 498 m
Gosforth Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,602
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 516
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Shoplifting 169
- Public order 150
- Criminal damage and arson 131
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE3 2 residents
- 12,959
Age bands in NE3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
2,165 residents
1,343 residents
3,466 residents
3,679 residents
2,917 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
20
within 5 km straight-line
REGENT MEDICAL CENTRE
RIDLEY HOUSE, HENRY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1DQ
ODS code A86028
953 m
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
1.1 km
PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHOPPING CENTRE, FAWDON PARK ROAD, FAWDON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 2PE
ODS code A86008
1.4 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
1.7 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
1.8 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
2.6 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
2.7 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
3.2 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
3.2 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
3.2 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
3.4 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
3.7 km
FENHAM HALL SURGERY
FENHAM HALL DRIVE, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 9XD
ODS code A86031
4.3 km
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
4.4 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
4.5 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
4.5 km
WESTERHOPE MEDICAL GROUP
377-377A STAMFORDHAM ROAD, WESTERHOPE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2LH
ODS code A86025
4.5 km
DILSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
23 DILSTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 5AB
ODS code Y00184
4.7 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
4.7 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Broadway West-Highbridge
BCT · Gosforth
- 0.0 miles
Broadway West-Highbridge
BCT · Gosforth
- 0.1 miles
Great North Road-Broadway West
BCT · Gosforth
- 0.1 miles
Great North Road-Broadway East
BCT · Gosforth
- 0.2 miles
Great North Road-Three Mile Inn
BCT · Gosforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 002D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,062 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,602 published events cover 12 months, averaging 133.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 516 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.