Schools
126 open schools are in scope, including 76 primary and 14 secondary schools. Byker Primary School is the nearest published school at 155 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE6 2FA
Byker · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Byker
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
- Postcode district
- NE6
- Postcode sector
- NE6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE6 2FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE6
- Postcode sector
- NE6 2
- Latitude
- 54.974391
- Longitude
- -1.578758
- British National Grid easting
- 427,063
- British National Grid northing
- 564,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Byker · E05016350
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend · E14001378
- Output area
- E00042108
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 040C · E01008305
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 040 · E02007103
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 NE6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 126
- Primary
- 76
- Secondary
- 14
- 155 m
Byker Primary School
Community school
- 291 m
St Lawrence's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 833 m
Welbeck Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,930
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,527
- Shoplifting 1,043
- Anti social behaviour 829
- Criminal damage and arson 539
- Public order 441
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 94
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- NE6 2 residents
- 12,593
46 female, 48 male
Age bands in NE6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15%
2,324 residents
1,431 residents
3,272 residents
2,833 residents
1,739 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE6 2 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+
- 92.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 35.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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
40
within 5 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
444 m
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
461 m
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
1.7 km
ST. ANTHONY'S HEALTH CENTRE
ST. ANTHONY'S MED GROUP, ST. ANTHONY'S ROAD, WALKER, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 2NN
ODS code A86040
1.7 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
2.0 km
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
2.0 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
2.0 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
2.0 km
WALKER MEDICAL GROUP
CHURCH WALK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 3BS
ODS code A86011
2.2 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
2.3 km
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
2.5 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
2.6 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
2.8 km
CROWHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85009
3.0 km
ST. ALBANS MEDICAL GROUP
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85011
3.0 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
3.1 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
3.2 km
PELAW MEDICAL PRACTICE
7-8 CROXDALE TERRACE, PELAW, GATESHEAD, NE10 0RR
ODS code A85611
3.3 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
3.3 km
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 40 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Raby Way-Conyers Road
BCT · Byker
- 0.1 miles
Conyers Road
BCT · Byker
- 0.1 miles
Byker (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
PLT · Byker
- 0.1 miles
Byker (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
MET · Byker
- 0.1 miles
Raby Way-Commercial Road
BCT · Byker
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 040C, 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
470 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 6
- 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
5,930 published events cover 12 months, averaging 494.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,527 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.