Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 12 secondary schools. Brunton First School is the nearest published school at 774 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE3 5NY
Parklands & North Gosforth · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 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 5NY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE3
- Postcode sector
- NE3 5
- Latitude
- 55.029112
- Longitude
- -1.630044
- British National Grid easting
- 423,748
- British National Grid northing
- 570,571
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
- E00042169
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 002A · E01008309
- 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
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Melrose Close, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 5NY | 23 August 2019 | £275,000 |
| 13, Melrose Close, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 5NY | 24 September 2015 | £280,000 |
| 9, Melrose Close, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 5NY | 18 February 2011 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 66
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 12
- 774 m
Brunton First School
Foundation school
- 1.5 km
Gosforth Park First School
Foundation school
- 1.6 km
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Gosforth
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 629
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Anti social behaviour 133
- Vehicle crime 46
- Other theft 42
- Public order 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 44
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- NE3 5 residents
- 8,257
23 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE3 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
14
within 5 km
BRUNTON PARK
PRINCES ROAD, BRUNTON PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 5NF
ODS code A86033
295 m
WOODLANDS PARK HEALTH CTR
CANTERBURY WAY, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6JJ
ODS code A87017
1.9 km
PARK MEDICAL GROUP
SHOPPING CENTRE, FAWDON PARK ROAD, FAWDON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 2PE
ODS code A86008
2.0 km
WIDEOPEN MEDICAL CENTRE
TULACH ARD, NORTH ROAD, WIDEOPEN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6LN
ODS code A87012
2.2 km
REGENT MEDICAL CENTRE
RIDLEY HOUSE, HENRY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1DQ
ODS code A86028
2.3 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL GROUP
1 THE GROVE, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NU
ODS code A86018
3.1 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
3.2 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
3.5 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
3.9 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
4.1 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
4.1 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
4.2 km
MALLARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87615
4.3 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL PRACT.
KILLINGWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, CITADEL EAST, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 6HS
ODS code A87612
4.3 km
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
- 0.0 miles
Brunton Lane-Farm Cottages
BCT · Great Park
- 0.1 miles
Netherwitton Way
BCT · Great Park
- 0.1 miles
Brunton Lane-Farm Cottages
BCT · Great Park
- 0.2 miles
Brunton Park Polwarth Drive
BCT · Gosforth
- 0.3 miles
Great North Road - Brunton Lane
BCT · Gosforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 002A, 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
33,708 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
629 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.