High Spen

High Spen is covered by postcode district NE39. It is in the Gateshead council area, England.

Typical price £130,000 Homes sold in High Spen, last 12 months. ▼ 11.9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 46 of 50 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in High Spen, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in High Spen, by flood risk Of the 50 postcodes in High Spen that ONS places, 50 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: High Spen. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. NE39 2AB: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AD: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AE: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AF: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AG: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AH: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AJ: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AL: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AN: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AP: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AQ: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AR: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AS: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AT: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AU: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AW: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AX: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AY: not on the flood risk listNE39 2AZ: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BA: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BB: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BD: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BE: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BG: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BH: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BJ: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BL: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BP: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BQ: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BR: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BS: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BT: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BU: not on the flood risk listNE39 2BW: not on the flood risk listNE39 2DN: not on the flood risk listNE39 2DP: not on the flood risk listNE39 2DR: not on the flood risk listNE39 2DU: not on the flood risk listNE39 2DW: not on the flood risk listNE39 2DY: not on the flood risk listNE39 2EA: not on the flood risk listNE39 2EB: not on the flood risk listNE39 2ED: not on the flood risk listNE39 2EE: not on the flood risk listNE39 2HD: not on the flood risk listNE39 2HE: not on the flood risk listNE39 2HF: not on the flood risk listNE39 2HG: not on the flood risk listNE39 2HQ: not on the flood risk list High Spen Map of every postcode in High Spen, by flood risk Of the 50 postcodes in High Spen that ONS places, 50 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: High Spen. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. High Spen
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 50

Of the 50 postcodes in High Spen that ONS places, 50 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. 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 54.9293, longitude -1.7833. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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

What is it like to live in High Spen?

Homes sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 11.9% on the 12 months before. At 46 of the 50 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 50 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Chopwell Primary Healthcare Centre, 2.2 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Wylam, 5.4 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 High Spen?

Homes in High Spen sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, down 11.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£130,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£147,500 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 11.9% on the 12 months before
  • Detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached £140,000 5 sales
  • Terraced £122,000 11 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole NE39 district, High Spen's main postcode district: a typical £170,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in High Spen: 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 High Spen?

2 of the 50 postcodes now in use in High Spen came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 24 homes sold in High Spen were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE39 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

NE39 2DUsince August 2021NE39 2DSsince April 2021

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

PeriodIn High SpenAcross the NE39 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 20 (0%) 0 of 92 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 24 (0%) 13 of 151 (9%)

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 High Spen?

Ofcom reports on 50 of the 50 postcodes in High Spen. At 46 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit46 of 50
Postcodes where every home can get superfast49 of 50

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is High Spen at risk of flooding?

None of the 50 postcodes in High Spen is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 High Spen?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in High Spen. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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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 High Spen?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in High Spen is Wylam Rail Station, 5.4 km away in a straight line.

  • Wylam Rail Station Railway station 5.4 kmDrive
  • Blaydon Rail Station Railway station 6.1 kmDrive
  • Prudhoe Rail Station Railway station 6.6 kmDrive

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 High Spen?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in High Spen. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is High Spen safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 207 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in High Spen 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

  1. 20 September 2025
  2. 23 October 2025
  3. 16 November 2025
  4. 15 December 2025
  5. 14 January 2026
  6. 11 February 2026
  7. 20 March 2026
  8. 19 April 2026
  9. 18 May 2026
  10. 19 June 2026
  11. 16 July 2026
  12. 16 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences71 reports
Anti-social behaviour67 reports
Public order14 reports
Criminal damage and arson13 reports
Other crime13 reports
Vehicle crime12 reports
Other theft7 reports
Burglary6 reports

Also: drugs 2, robbery 1, possession of weapons 1.

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 postcode

Source: 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 High Spen?

Council
Gateshead
Parliamentary constituency
Blaydon and Consett
Police force area
Northumbria
Region
North East
Country
England
MP
Liz Twist (Labour)

All 50 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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High Spen postcodes

50 postcodes in use in High Spen, by district:

NE39 postcode district,50 postcodes

That district is in the NE postcode area.

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Places near High Spen

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside High Spen's £130,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Rowlands Gill2.2 km, £190,000Chopwell2.5 km, £79,105Crawcrook and Greenside3.5 km, £167,000Burnopfield4.1 km, £140,500Ryton5.0 km, £205,000Blaydon5.3 km, £154,000Prudhoe5.6 km, £165,000Dipton5.8 km, £154,000 All places A to Z

Questions about High Spen

What is it like to live in High Spen?
Homes sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 11.9% on the 12 months before. At 46 of the 50 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 50 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Chopwell Primary Healthcare Centre, 2.2 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Wylam, 5.4 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 High Spen?
High Spen is covered by postcode district NE39, across 50 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is High Spen in?
High Spen is in the Gateshead council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for High Spen?
High Spen is in the Blaydon and Consett parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Liz Twist (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in High Spen?
Homes in High Spen sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, down 11.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in High Spen?
In High Spen, primary schools at its postcodes include High Spen Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Thorp Academy, 4.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does High Spen have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in High Spen is Wylam, 5.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in High Spen?
Ofcom reports on 50 of the 50 postcodes in High Spen. At 46 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is High Spen at risk of flooding?
None of the 50 postcodes in High Spen is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in High Spen?
2 of the 50 postcodes now in use in High Spen came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 24 homes sold in High Spen were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE39 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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