Schools
76 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 10 secondary schools. Forest View Primary is the nearest published school at 501 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE34 8SE
Whiteleas · South Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- South Shields
- Ward
- Whiteleas
- Local authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields
- Postcode district
- NE34
- Postcode sector
- NE34 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE34 8SE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE34
- Postcode sector
- NE34 8
- Latitude
- 54.960234
- Longitude
- -1.435824
- British National Grid easting
- 436,225
- British National Grid northing
- 562,989
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- South Tyneside · E08000023
- Electoral ward
- Whiteleas · E05016279
- Parish or community
- E43000177
- Westminster constituency
- South Shields · E14001492
- Output area
- E00044126
- Lower layer super output area
- South Tyneside 019B · E01008689
- Middle layer super output area
- South Tyneside 019 · E02001786
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Raphael Avenue, South Shields, NE34 8SE | 16 March 2007 | £142,500 |
| 25, Raphael Avenue, South Shields, NE34 8SE | 22 November 2002 | £47,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 76
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 10
- 501 m
Forest View Primary
Community school
- 583 m
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, South Shields
Academy converter
- 806 m
Biddick Hall Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,409
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 885
- Criminal damage and arson 354
- Anti social behaviour 328
- Public order 201
- Shoplifting 140
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 41
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- NE34 8 residents
- 10,808
38 female, 25 male
Age bands in NE34 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,819 residents
1,014 residents
2,672 residents
3,013 residents
2,435 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE34 8 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
19
within 5 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
STANLEY STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 0BX
ODS code A88006
1.5 km
FARNHAM MEDICAL CTR.
435 STANHOPE ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4QY
ODS code A88002
1.7 km
CENTRAL SURGERY
CLEADON PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 8PS
ODS code A88013
1.8 km
WENLOCK ROAD SURGERY
171 WENLOCK ROAD, SIMONSIDE, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 9BP
ODS code A88005
1.9 km
BOLDON GP PRACTICE
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88009
2.0 km
COLLIERY COURT MEDICAL GROUP
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88016
2.0 km
IMEARY MEDICAL GROUP
STANHOPE PARADE HEALTH CENTRE, GORDON STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4JP
ODS code A88601
2.8 km
WEST VIEW SURGERY
GORDON STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4JP
ODS code A88014
2.8 km
ST GEORGE & RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW GEORGE STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 5DU
ODS code A88015
3.1 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
NEW GEORGE STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 5DU
ODS code A88008
3.1 km
MARSDEN MEDICAL GROUP
MARSDEN ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 6RE
ODS code A88003
3.2 km
RAVENSWORTH SURGERY
HORSLEY HILL ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 3ET
ODS code A88608
3.3 km
RED HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
RED HOUSE SURGERY, 127 RENFREW ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR5 5PS
ODS code A89008
3.9 km
ALBERT ROAD SURGERY
118 ALBERT ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5AG
ODS code A88010
4.1 km
EAST WING PRACTICE
EAST WING SURGERY, PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88613
4.3 km
THE G.P.SUITE
PALMER COMMUNITY HOSPITALS, WEAR STREET, JARROW, NE32 3UX
ODS code A88025
4.3 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
PARK ROAD, JARROW, NE32 5SE
ODS code A88004
4.4 km
WHITBURN SURGERY
3 BRYERS STREET, WHITBURN, SUNDERLAND, SR6 7EE
ODS code A88023
4.6 km
FULWELL MEDICAL CENTRE,
EBDON LANE, SUNDERLAND, SR6 8DZ
ODS code A89015
4.7 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
Benton Road-Chuter Ede
BCT · Whiteleas
- 0.1 miles
Galsworthy Road-Benton Road
BCT · Biddick Hall
- 0.1 miles
Galsworthy Road-Whiteleas Way
BCT · Whiteleas
- 0.2 miles
Whiteleas Way-Holbein Road
BCT · Whiteleas
- 0.2 miles
Galsworthy Road-Chuter Ede
BCT · Biddick Hall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Tyneside 019B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,876 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 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.
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
- 5
- 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
2,409 published events cover 12 months, averaging 200.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 885 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.