Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Marsden Primary School is the nearest published school at 340 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR6 7NB
Whitburn & Marsden · South Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitburn & Marsden
- Local authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields
- Postcode district
- SR6
- Postcode sector
- SR6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR6 7NB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR6
- Postcode sector
- SR6 7
- Latitude
- 54.964491
- Longitude
- -1.367433
- British National Grid easting
- 440,600
- British National Grid northing
- 563,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- South Tyneside · E08000023
- Electoral ward
- Whitburn & Marsden · E05016278
- Parish or community
- E43000177
- Westminster constituency
- South Shields · E14001492
- Output area
- E00044113
- Lower layer super output area
- South Tyneside 018C · E01008685
- Middle layer super output area
- South Tyneside 018 · E02001785
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 SR6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 340 m
Marsden Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Whitburn Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Whitburn Village Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 257
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 84
- Shoplifting 48
- Anti social behaviour 42
- Public order 17
- Other crime 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR6 7 residents
- 9,845
Age bands in SR6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
1,479 residents
821 residents
1,926 residents
2,844 residents
2,780 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
WHITBURN SURGERY
3 BRYERS STREET, WHITBURN, SUNDERLAND, SR6 7EE
ODS code A88023
1.3 km
MARSDEN MEDICAL GROUP
MARSDEN ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 6RE
ODS code A88003
2.7 km
CENTRAL SURGERY
CLEADON PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 8PS
ODS code A88013
3.2 km
FULWELL MEDICAL CENTRE,
EBDON LANE, SUNDERLAND, SR6 8DZ
ODS code A89015
3.9 km
RAVENSWORTH SURGERY
HORSLEY HILL ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 3ET
ODS code A88608
4.3 km
IMEARY MEDICAL GROUP
STANHOPE PARADE HEALTH CENTRE, GORDON STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4JP
ODS code A88601
4.7 km
WEST VIEW SURGERY
GORDON STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4JP
ODS code A88014
4.7 km
FARNHAM MEDICAL CTR.
435 STANHOPE ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 4QY
ODS code A88002
4.7 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
STANLEY STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 0BX
ODS code A88006
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane-Whitburn Lodge
BCT · Whitburn
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane-Playground
BCT · Whitburn
- 0.1 miles
Kitchener Road-Arthur Street
BCT · Whitburn
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane-White Rocks Grove
BCT · Whitburn
- 0.2 miles
Mill Lane-Church
BCT · Whitburn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Tyneside 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,997 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
257 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 84 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.