Schools
122 open schools are in scope, including 71 primary and 17 secondary schools. Benfield School is the nearest published school at 488 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE6 2XT
Walkergate · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Ward
- Walkergate
- 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 2XT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE6
- Postcode sector
- NE6 2
- Latitude
- 54.987347
- Longitude
- -1.565543
- British National Grid easting
- 427,900
- British National Grid northing
- 565,947
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Walkergate · E05016370
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend · E14001378
- Output area
- E00042558
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 035A · E01008392
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 035 · E02007098
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| North Eastern Glass Ltd, Heaton Junction, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 2XT | 30 November 2018 | £300,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 122
- Primary
- 71
- Secondary
- 17
- 488 m
Benfield School
Academy converter
- 603 m
Walkergate Community School
Academy converter
- 871 m
Ravenswood Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,917
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,032
- Shoplifting 637
- Anti social behaviour 519
- Criminal damage and arson 426
- Public order 282
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE6 2 residents
- 12,593
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
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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- 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
37
within 5 km straight-line
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
337 m
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
746 m
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
1.4 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
1.6 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
1.9 km
WALKER MEDICAL GROUP
CHURCH WALK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 3BS
ODS code A86011
2.1 km
SWARLAND AVENUE SURGERY
2 SWARLAND AVENUE, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7TD
ODS code A86041
2.3 km
ST. ANTHONY'S HEALTH CENTRE
ST. ANTHONY'S MED GROUP, ST. ANTHONY'S ROAD, WALKER, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 2NN
ODS code A86040
2.4 km
LANE END SURGERY
2 MANOR WALK, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE7 7XX
ODS code A86016
2.5 km
THE VILLAGE GREEN SURGERY
THE GREEN, WALLSEND, NE28 6BB
ODS code A87016
2.5 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
3.0 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
3.0 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
3.1 km
ELLISON VIEW SURGERY
THE GLEN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88012
3.2 km
THE GLEN MEDICAL GROUP
30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88022
3.2 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
12-28 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88001
3.2 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
3.4 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
3.6 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
3.6 km
STEPHENSON PARK HEALTH GROUP
STATION ROAD, FOREST HALL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9BQ
ODS code A87007
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 37 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Whitefield Terrace-Warton Terrace
BCT · Heaton
- 0.2 miles
Benfield Road-Hospital
BCT · Walkergate
- 0.3 miles
Benfield Road-School
BCT · Walkergate
- 0.3 miles
Benfield Road-School
BCT · Walkergate
- 0.3 miles
Shields Road-Valentia Avenue
BCT · Byker
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 035A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,506 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
Recorded crime
3,917 published events cover 12 months, averaging 326.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,032 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.