Schools
65 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 12 secondary schools. Grasmere Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE3 5EN
Parklands & North 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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE3 5EN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1988
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE3
- Postcode sector
- NE3 5
- Latitude
- 55.033780
- Longitude
- -1.602591
- British National Grid easting
- 425,500
- British National Grid northing
- 571,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Parklands & North Gosforth · E05016367
- Parish or community
- E04000136
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne North · E14001379
- Output area
- E00175571
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 002G · E01033551
- 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
- 65
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 12
- 1.7 km
Grasmere Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.0 km
Bailey Green Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Westmoor Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 264
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 79
- Anti social behaviour 42
- Other theft 28
- Public order 26
- Shoplifting 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE3 5 residents
- 8,257
Age bands in NE3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
1,363 residents
684 residents
1,907 residents
2,208 residents
1,891 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
1.8 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
2.1 km
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
2.2 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
2.5 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
2.5 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
2.7 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
2.7 km
REGENT MEDICAL CENTRE
RIDLEY HOUSE, HENRY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1DQ
ODS code A86028
3.0 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
3.4 km
PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHOPPING CENTRE, FAWDON PARK ROAD, FAWDON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 2PE
ODS code A86008
3.5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
3.7 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
3.8 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
4.2 km
NETHERFIELD HOUSE
HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SEGHILL, CRAMLINGTON, NE23 7EF
ODS code A84037
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
A189-Whitehouse Farm
BCT · West Moor
- 0.5 miles
A189-Whitehouse Farm
BCT · West Moor
- 0.6 miles
Killingworth Way
BCT · Burradon
- 0.7 miles
Killingworth Way
BCT · Burradon
- 0.7 miles
Gosforth Park
BCT · North Brunton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 002G, 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
32,588 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
264 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 79 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.