Property market
The five-year median is £114,780 from 2 recorded sales in NE40 3RX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Gateshead is £158,254 in June 2026, up 7.8% year on year.
NE40 3RX
Ryton, Crookhill & Stella · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ryton
- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett
- Postcode district
- NE40
- Postcode sector
- NE40 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE40 3RX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE40
- Postcode sector
- NE40 3
- Latitude
- 54.973447
- Longitude
- -1.756109
- British National Grid easting
- 415,711
- British National Grid northing
- 564,341
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
- E00041827
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 001D · E01008249
- 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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Meadow Walk, Ryton, NE40 3RX | 28 November 2025 | £130,560 |
| 12, Meadow Walk, Ryton, NE40 3RX | 12 October 2021 | £99,000 |
| 2, Meadow Walk, Ryton, NE40 3RX | 12 August 2019 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 4
- 694 m
Crookhill Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Thorp Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Ryton Community Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 830
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 227
- Anti social behaviour 177
- Shoplifting 123
- Criminal damage and arson 76
- Public order 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- NE40 3 residents
- 7,580
9 female, 6 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE40 3 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
9
within 5 km
NEWBURN SURGERY
4 NEWBURN ROAD, NEWBURN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 8LX
ODS code A86038
1.6 km
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
THROCKLEY PRIMARY CARE CT, TILLMOUTH PK RD,THROCKLEY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE15 9PA
ODS code A86026
2.2 km
CRAWCROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
PATTINSON DRIVE, CRAWCROOK, RYTON, NE40 4US
ODS code A85014
2.2 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
3.0 km
PARKWAY MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL HOUSE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HILLHEAD PARKWAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 1LJ
ODS code A86022
3.7 km
DENTON PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DENTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, WEST DENTON WAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2QW
ODS code A86013
4.3 km
DENTON TURRET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 KENLEY ROAD, SLATYFORD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE5 2UY
ODS code A86601
4.6 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
Main Road-Runhead Estate
BCT · Ryton
- 0.1 miles
Main Road-Social Club
BCT · Ryton
- 0.1 miles
Hexham Old Road-Church
BCT · Ryton
- 0.1 miles
Hexham Old Road-Holly Bush Villas
BCT · Ryton
- 0.2 miles
Hexham Old Road
BCT · Ryton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 001D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,885 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 4 secondary schools. Crookhill Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 694 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
830 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 227 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.