Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 3 secondary schools. Thorp Academy is the nearest published school at 921 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE40 3FB
Ryton, Crookhill & Stella · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- NE40
- Postcode sector
- NE40 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE40 3FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE40
- Postcode sector
- NE40 3
- Latitude
- 54.967798
- Longitude
- -1.762766
- British National Grid easting
- 415,287
- British National Grid northing
- 563,711
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Ryton, Crookhill & Stella · E05016560
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Blaydon and Consett · E14001106
- Output area
- E00041838
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 001B · E01008247
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 001 · E02001682
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 NE40
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 3
- 921 m
Thorp Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 937 m
Ryton Community Infant School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Crookhill Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 767
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 221
- Anti social behaviour 134
- Shoplifting 126
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Other crime 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE40 3 residents
- 7,580
Age bands in NE40 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
1,118 residents
695 residents
1,587 residents
2,238 residents
1,882 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
8
within 5 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
1.6 km
NEWBURN SURGERY
4 NEWBURN ROAD, NEWBURN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 8LX
ODS code A86038
2.3 km
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CT, TILLMOUTH PK RD,THROCKLEY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 9PA
ODS code A86026
2.8 km
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
8 FRONT STREET, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85616
2.9 km
OLDWELL SURGERY
10 FRONT STREET, WINLATON, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4RD
ODS code A85018
2.9 km
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
SHIBDON ROAD, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 5AE
ODS code A85010
3.2 km
PARKWAY MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL HOUSE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HILLHEAD PARKWAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 1LJ
ODS code A86022
4.4 km
DENTON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DENTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, WEST DENTON WAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2QW
ODS code A86013
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
- 0.2 miles
Cushy Cow Lane
BCT · Ryton
- 0.2 miles
Cushy Cow Lane
BCT · Ryton
- 0.2 miles
Woodside Lane
BCT · Crawcrook
- 0.3 miles
Woodside Lane-Western Way Drive
BCT · Ryton
- 0.3 miles
Woodside Lane-Western Way Drive
BCT · Ryton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 001B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,262 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
767 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 221 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.