Schools
123 open schools are in scope, including 72 primary and 17 secondary schools. Benfield School is the nearest published school at 640 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE6 5EJ
Heaton · Newcastle upon Tyne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heaton
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
- Postcode district
- NE6
- Postcode sector
- NE6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE6 5EJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE6
- Postcode sector
- NE6 5
- Latitude
- 54.986906
- Longitude
- -1.567876
- British National Grid easting
- 427,751
- British National Grid northing
- 565,897
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Newcastle upon Tyne · E08000021
- Electoral ward
- Heaton · E05016358
- Parish or community
- E43000270
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend · E14001378
- Output area
- E00042406
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 018C · E01008360
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle upon Tyne 018 · E02001725
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
- 123
- Primary
- 72
- Secondary
- 17
- 640 m
Benfield School
Academy converter
- 692 m
Walkergate Community School
Academy converter
- 721 m
Chillingham Road Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,427
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,116
- Shoplifting 831
- Anti social behaviour 583
- Criminal damage and arson 425
- Public order 316
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE6 5 residents
- 14,594
Age bands in NE6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 28%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.3%
1,329 residents
4,028 residents
5,326 residents
2,341 residents
1,339 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
38
within 5 km straight-line
BENFIELD PARK MEDICAL GROUP
BENFIELD ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4QD
ODS code A86023
485 m
BIDDLESTONE HEALTH GROUP
BIDDLESTONE ROAD, HEATON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5SL
ODS code A86010
622 m
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
1.2 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
1.4 km
HADRIAN HEALTH CENTRE
ELTON STREET EAST, WALLSEND, NE28 8QU
ODS code A87029
2.1 km
WALKER MEDICAL GROUP
CHURCH WALK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 3BS
ODS code A86011
2.2 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
2.7 km
JESMOND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
200 OSBORNE ROAD, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE2 3LD
ODS code A86020
2.9 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
2.9 km
WEST FARM SURGERY
31 WEST FARM AVENUE, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 8LS
ODS code A86005
3.0 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
3.3 km
ELLISON VIEW SURGERY
THE GLEN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88012
3.3 km
THE GLEN MEDICAL GROUP
30 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88022
3.3 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
12-28 GLEN STREET, HEBBURN, NE31 1NU
ODS code A88001
3.3 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
3.5 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
3.5 km
ROSEWORTH SURGERY
27-29 ROSEWORTH AVENUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 1NB
ODS code A86006
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 38 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whitefield Terrace-Warton Terrace
BCT · Heaton
- 0.1 miles
Whitefield Terrace-Warton Terrace
BCT · Heaton
- 0.3 miles
Whitefield Terrace-Sackville Road
BCT · Heaton
- 0.3 miles
Whitefield Terrace-Sackville Road
BCT · Heaton
- 0.3 miles
Shields Road-Valentia Avenue
BCT · Byker
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle upon Tyne 018C, 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
23,539 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
4,427 published events cover 12 months, averaging 368.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,116 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.