Gateshead
Gateshead is covered by postcode districts NE8, NE9, NE10, NE11, NE88, NE92 and 2 more. It is mostly in the Gateshead council area: 2,644 of its 2,646 postcodes. The others are in Sunderland.
Every postcode in Gateshead, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 55
- In use before 2020: 2,591
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 2,646 postcodes in Gateshead that ONS places, 55 are new since 2020 and 2,591 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.9447, longitude -1.5913. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Gateshead?
Homes sold for a typical £157,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.3% on the 12 months before. At 1,982 of the 2,537 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 184 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 82 of its 2,646 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Heworth, 2.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Gateshead?
Homes in Gateshead sold for a typical £157,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,047 sales, up 1.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £295,000 79 sales
- Semi-detached £170,000 406 sales
- Terraced £158,000 322 sales
- Flat or maisonette £105,500 240 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole NE9 district, Gateshead's main postcode district: a typical £180,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Gateshead: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Gateshead?
55 of the 2,646 postcodes now in use in Gateshead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 51 of the 1,357 homes sold in Gateshead were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE9 district, 1%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Gateshead | Across the NE9 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 5 of 1,047 (Under 1%) | 0 of 356 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 51 of 1,357 (4%) | 6 of 456 (1%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Gateshead?
Ofcom reports on 2,537 of the 2,646 postcodes in Gateshead. At 1,982 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Gateshead at risk of flooding?
82 of the 2,646 postcodes in Gateshead have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 184 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Gateshead?
The open schools at the postcodes in Gateshead (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell450 m 213 pupils, 210 places
- Carr Hill Community Primary School500 m 308 pupils, 369 places
- Kells Lane Primary School900 m 453 pupils, 472 places
- Gibside School900 m 211 pupils, 180 places
- Glynwood Community Primary School950 m 423 pupils, 480 places
- South Street Community Primary School1.0 km 232 pupils, 210 places
- Falla Park Community Primary School1.2 km 222 pupils, 210 places
- Caedmon Community Primary School1.2 km 231 pupils, 210 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Gateshead?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Gateshead is Heworth Rail Station, 2.4 km away in a straight line.
- Heworth Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
- Newcastle Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
- Manors Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
- Gateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) Underground, metro or tram 1.5 kmCycle
- Felling (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) Underground, metro or tram 1.6 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Gateshead?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Gateshead, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Fell Cottage Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 0191 487 2656 700 mWalk
- Fell Tower Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2025 · Phone 0191 491 3322 1.2 kmWalk
- Beacon View Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 0191 482 4000 1.4 kmCycle
- Oxford Tce & Rawling Rd Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 477 2169 1.4 kmCycle
- Bewick Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 477 2296 1.5 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Gateshead safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,339 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Gateshead over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 418 September 2025
- 512 October 2025
- 426 November 2025
- 371 December 2025
- 127 January 2026
- 231 February 2026
- 281 March 2026
- 386 April 2026
- 446 May 2026
- 351 June 2026
- 376 July 2026
- 414 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 148, robbery 92, drugs 81, possession of weapons 36, theft from the person 27, bicycle theft 24.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Gateshead?
- Councils
- Gateshead (2,644) and Sunderland (2)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Gateshead Central and Whickham (1,783), Jarrow and Gateshead East (728) and Washington and Gateshead South (135)
- Police force area
- Northumbria
- Region
- North East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Gateshead
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Gateshead is in Gateshead; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Gateshead about council tax Council tax, on gateshead.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Gateshead
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Gateshead postcodes
2,646 postcodes in use in Gateshead, by district:
Those districts are all in the NE postcode area.
Check a Gateshead postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Gateshead
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Gateshead's £157,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Gateshead
- What is it like to live in Gateshead?
- Homes sold for a typical £157,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.3% on the 12 months before. At 1,982 of the 2,537 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 184 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 82 of its 2,646 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Heworth, 2.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Gateshead?
- Gateshead is covered by postcode districts NE8, NE9, NE10, NE11, NE88, NE92 and 2 more, across 2,646 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Gateshead?
- Homes in Gateshead sold for a typical £157,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,047 sales, up 1.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Gateshead?
- In Gateshead, primary schools at its postcodes include St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell, Carr Hill Community Primary School and Kells Lane Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include River Tyne Academy Gateshead, Furrowfield School and Haskel School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Gateshead have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Gateshead is Heworth, 2.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Gateshead?
- Ofcom reports on 2,537 of the 2,646 postcodes in Gateshead. At 1,982 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Gateshead at risk of flooding?
- 82 of the 2,646 postcodes in Gateshead have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 184 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Gateshead?
- 55 of the 2,646 postcodes now in use in Gateshead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 51 of the 1,357 homes sold in Gateshead were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE9 district, 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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