Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 7 secondary schools. Harton Academy is the nearest published school at 279 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE34 6PZ
Harton · South Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- South Shields
- Ward
- Harton
- Local authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields
- Postcode district
- NE34
- Postcode sector
- NE34 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE34 6PZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE34
- Postcode sector
- NE34 6
- Latitude
- 54.973344
- Longitude
- -1.408973
- British National Grid easting
- 437,932
- British National Grid northing
- 564,462
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- South Tyneside · E08000023
- Electoral ward
- Harton · E05016269
- Parish or community
- E43000177
- Westminster constituency
- South Shields · E14001492
- Output area
- E00043831
- Lower layer super output area
- South Tyneside 006A · E01008635
- Middle layer super output area
- South Tyneside 006 · E02001773
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 NE34
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 21, South Close, South Shields, NE34 6PZ | 14 May 2021 | £79,000 |
| 13, South Close, South Shields, NE34 6PZ | 27 November 2020 | £80,000 |
| 23, South Close, South Shields, NE34 6PZ | 24 January 2018 | £73,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 7
- 279 m
Harton Academy
Academy converter
- 481 m
Harton Primary School
Community school
- 590 m
Ridgeway Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,195
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 762
- Anti social behaviour 343
- Criminal damage and arson 262
- Shoplifting 199
- Public order 171
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 69
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- NE34 6 residents
- 8,476
35 female, 34 male
Age bands in NE34 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
1,362 residents
818 residents
1,776 residents
2,513 residents
2,417 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE34 6 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
15
within 5 km
CENTRAL SURGERY
CLEADON PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 8PS
ODS code A88013
466 m
MARSDEN MEDICAL GROUP
MARSDEN ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 6RE
ODS code A88003
974 m
RAVENSWORTH SURGERY
HORSLEY HILL ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 3ET
ODS code A88608
1.8 km
FARNHAM MEDICAL CTR.
435 STANHOPE ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4QY
ODS code A88002
1.9 km
IMEARY MEDICAL GROUP
STANHOPE PARADE HEALTH CENTRE, GORDON STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4JP
ODS code A88601
1.9 km
WEST VIEW SURGERY
GORDON STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4JP
ODS code A88014
1.9 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
STANLEY STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 0BX
ODS code A88006
2.1 km
ST GEORGE & RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW GEORGE STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 5DU
ODS code A88015
2.4 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
NEW GEORGE STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 5DU
ODS code A88008
2.4 km
WENLOCK ROAD SURGERY
171 WENLOCK ROAD, SIMONSIDE, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 9BP
ODS code A88005
3.0 km
WHITBURN SURGERY
3 BRYERS STREET, WHITBURN, SUNDERLAND, SR6 7EE
ODS code A88023
3.6 km
BOLDON GP PRACTICE
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88009
4.2 km
COLLIERY COURT MEDICAL GROUP
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88016
4.2 km
PRIORY MEDICAL GROUP
19 ALBION ROAD, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0HT
ODS code A87009
4.9 km
NPC NORTH TYNESIDE - SPRING TERRACE
SPRING TERRACE, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 0HD
ODS code A87002
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Sunderland Road
BCT · Harton Nook
- 0.1 miles
Sunderland Road
BCT · Harton Nook
- 0.1 miles
Prince Edward Road-Centenary Avenue
BCT · Harton Nook
- 0.1 miles
Centenary Avenue-Prince Edward Road
BCT · Harton Nook
- 0.2 miles
Harton Nook
BCT · Harton Nook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Tyneside 006A, 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
14,291 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,195 published events cover 12 months, averaging 182.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 762 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.