Schools
113 open schools are in scope, including 69 primary and 10 secondary schools. Bahr Academy is the nearest published school at 430 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE4 6SW
Elswick · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Elswick
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
- Postcode district
- NE4
- Postcode sector
- NE4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE4 6SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE4
- Postcode sector
- NE4 6
- Latitude
- 54.968312
- Longitude
- -1.645409
- British National Grid easting
- 422,800
- British National Grid northing
- 563,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Elswick · E05016355
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West · E14001377
- Output area
- E00042808
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 041C · E01008437
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 041 · E02007104
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 NE4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 113
- Primary
- 69
- Secondary
- 10
- 430 m
Bahr Academy
Other independent school
- 521 m
St Michael's Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 560 m
Hawthorn Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,750
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,166
- Anti social behaviour 746
- Criminal damage and arson 485
- Public order 466
- Other theft 421
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE4 6 residents
- 7,549
Age bands in NE4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.1%
1,525 residents
1,251 residents
2,420 residents
1,564 residents
596 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
32
within 5 km straight-line
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
336 m
PROSPECT MEDICAL CENTRE
501 WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8AY
ODS code A86004
657 m
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
924 m
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
936 m
DILSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
23 DILSTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 5AB
ODS code Y00184
980 m
WEST ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
170 WEST ROAD, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 9QB
ODS code A86012
1.1 km
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
1.8 km
BETTS AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
2 BETTS AVENUE, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 6TQ
ODS code A86030
2.0 km
FENHAM HALL SURGERY
FENHAM HALL DRIVE, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 9XD
ODS code A86031
2.0 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
2.1 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
2.5 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
2.5 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
2.5 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
2.7 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
2.7 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
2.9 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
3.0 km
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
3.1 km
DENTON TURRET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 KENLEY ROAD, SLATYFORD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2UY
ODS code A86601
3.1 km
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 32 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Elswick Road-Northbourne Street
BCT · Elswick
- 0.1 miles
Bentinck Road-Elswick Road
BCT · Elswick
- 0.1 miles
Bentinck Road-Clifton Road
BCT · Elswick
- 0.1 miles
Elswick Road-Croftsway
BCT · Elswick
- 0.2 miles
Elswick Road - Malvern Street
BCT · Elswick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 041C, 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
548 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
5,750 published events cover 12 months, averaging 479.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,166 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.