Property market
The five-year median is £151,600 from 1 recorded sale in NE8 1PS. 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.
NE8 1PS
Bridges · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE8 1PS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE8
- Postcode sector
- NE8 1
- Latitude
- 54.959592
- Longitude
- -1.608928
- British National Grid easting
- 425,141
- British National Grid northing
- 562,842
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Bridges · E05016548
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham · E14001244
- Output area
- E00041394
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 008A · E01008167
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 008 · E02001689
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 NE8
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 108, Bensham Road, Gateshead, NE8 1PS | 1 February 2024 | £151,600 |
| 82, Bensham Road, Gateshead, NE8 1PS | 11 September 2015 | £190,000 |
| 108, Bensham Road, Gateshead, NE8 1PS | 29 November 2013 | £122,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 118
- Primary
- 73
- Secondary
- 11
- 355 m
Gateshead Jewish Nursery School
Other independent school
- 442 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead
Academy converter
- 509 m
Keser Girls School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,592
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,477
- Anti social behaviour 1,225
- Other theft 766
- Public order 765
- Criminal damage and arson 714
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- NE8 1 residents
- 6,266
19 female, 22 male
Age bands in NE8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20%
- Age 15 to 24
- 24.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.3%
1,297 residents
1,568 residents
1,604 residents
1,220 residents
800 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE8 1 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+
- 94.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 26.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 26.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 26.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 94.7%
- 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
36
within 5 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
455 m
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
510 m
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
510 m
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
585 m
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
612 m
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
671 m
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
919 m
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
1.7 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
1.8 km
SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP
7 SAVILLE PLACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 8DQ
ODS code A86003
1.8 km
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
2.1 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
2.3 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
2.5 km
THORNFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
MOLINEUX STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SG
ODS code A86029
2.6 km
DILSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
23 DILSTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 5AB
ODS code Y00184
2.8 km
HEATON ROAD SURGERY
17-19 HEATON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1SA
ODS code A86024
2.8 km
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
2.8 km
PROSPECT MEDICAL CENTRE
501 WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8AY
ODS code A86004
2.9 km
CROWHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85009
2.9 km
ST. ALBANS MEDICAL GROUP
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85011
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 36 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
- 0.0 miles
Bensham Road-Musgrave Villas
BCT · Bensham
- 0.0 miles
Bensham Road-Alexandra Villas
BCT · Bensham
- 0.1 miles
Bensham Road - Coatsworth Road
BCT · Bensham
- 0.1 miles
Bensham Road - Coatsworth Road
BCT · Bensham
- 0.1 miles
Askew Road-St Cuthberts
BCT · Bensham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 008A, 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
3,746 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
118 open schools are in scope, including 73 primary and 11 secondary schools. Gateshead Jewish Nursery School is the nearest published school at 355 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9,592 published events cover 12 months, averaging 799.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,477 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.