Newburn

Newburn is covered by postcode district NE15. It is in the Newcastle upon Tyne council area, England.

Typical price £130,000 Homes sold in Newburn, last 12 months. ▲ 2.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 37 of 54 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 54 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Newburn, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Newburn, by flood risk Of the 54 postcodes in Newburn that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 49 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Newburn. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A6085 NE15 8BF: not on the flood risk listNE15 8BT: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HA: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HB: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HD: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HE: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HF: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HH: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HJ: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HL: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HN: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HP: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HR: not on the flood risk listNE15 8HS: not on the flood risk listNE15 8JU: not on the flood risk listNE15 8JY: not on the flood risk listNE15 8JZ: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LA: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LB: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LE: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LP: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LQ: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LR: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LT: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LU: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LX: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LY: not on the flood risk listNE15 8NA: not on the flood risk listNE15 8NB: not on the flood risk listNE15 8NE: not on the flood risk listNE15 8NH: not on the flood risk listNE15 8NJ: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PA: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PB: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PD: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PL: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PN: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PP: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PQ: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PR: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PS: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PT: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PU: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PX: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PY: not on the flood risk listNE15 8PZ: not on the flood risk listNE15 8QR: not on the flood risk listNE15 9GZ: not on the flood risk listNE15 9RU: not on the flood risk listNE15 8LN: low flood risk at worstNE15 9RT: low flood risk at worstNE15 8LS: high flood riskNE15 8ND: high flood riskNE15 8NL: high flood risk Newburn Map of every postcode in Newburn, by flood risk Of the 54 postcodes in Newburn that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 49 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Newburn. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A6085 Newburn
  • A home or business at high risk: 3
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 49

Of the 54 postcodes in Newburn that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 49 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.9839, longitude -1.7410. 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

NE15 8ND2 at high riskNE15 8LS1 at high riskNE15 8NL1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Newburn?

Homes sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.4% on the 12 months before. At 37 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 54 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Blaydon, 2.7 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 Newburn?

Homes in Newburn sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 23 sales, up 2.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£130,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£127,000
12 months to August 2026
£130,000

▲ up 2.4% on the 12 months before

Detached 2 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
Terraced£130,000 15 sales
Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole NE15 district, Newburn's main postcode district: a typical £161,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newburn: 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 Newburn?

3 of the 54 postcodes now in use in Newburn came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 22 homes sold in Newburn were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE15 district, 16%.

The newest postcodes

NE15 9GZsince February 2025NE15 8BTsince May 2023NE15 8BFsince December 2022

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 NewburnAcross the NE15 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 23 (0%) 15 of 317 (5%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 22 (0%) 84 of 511 (16%)

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 Newburn?

Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Newburn. At 37 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit37 of 54
Postcodes where every home can get superfast49 of 54

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 Newburn at risk of flooding?

5 of the 54 postcodes in Newburn 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 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 54 postcodes High: 4Low: 73

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 Newburn?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Newburn. 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 Newburn?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newburn is Blaydon Rail Station, 2.7 km away in a straight line.

  • Blaydon Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle
  • Wylam Rail Station Railway station 4.8 kmCycle
  • Metrocentre Rail Station Railway station 5.6 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 Newburn?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Newburn. 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 Newburn safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,077 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Newburn 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. 116 September 2025
  2. 99 October 2025
  3. 107 November 2025
  4. 89 December 2025
  5. 29 January 2026
  6. 72 February 2026
  7. 86 March 2026
  8. 87 April 2026
  9. 86 May 2026
  10. 114 June 2026
  11. 94 July 2026
  12. 98 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences334 reports
Anti-social behaviour304 reports
Criminal damage and arson114 reports
Public order70 reports
Vehicle crime64 reports
Burglary58 reports
Other crime43 reports
Other theft39 reports

Also: shoplifting 18, drugs 14, possession of weapons 6, bicycle theft 5, robbery 5, theft from the person 3.

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 Newburn?

Council
Newcastle upon Tyne
Parliamentary constituencies
Hexham (52) and Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (2)
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 Newburn

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Newburn postcodes

54 postcodes in use in Newburn, by district:

NE15 postcode district,54 postcodes

That district is in the NE postcode area.

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Places near Newburn

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

Throckley1.6 km, £164,500Ryton1.7 km, £205,000Blaydon3.4 km, £154,000Crawcrook and Greenside3.8 km, £167,000Wylam5.2 km, £355,000Whickham5.9 km, £217,500High Spen6.6 km, £130,000Ponteland6.7 km, £450,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Newburn

What is it like to live in Newburn?
Homes sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.4% on the 12 months before. At 37 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 54 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Blaydon, 2.7 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 Newburn?
Newburn is covered by postcode district NE15, across 54 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Newburn in?
Newburn is in the Newcastle upon Tyne council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Newburn?
Homes in Newburn sold for a typical £130,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 23 sales, up 2.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Newburn?
In Newburn, primary schools at its postcodes include Newburn Manor Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Talbot House Children's Charity, 1.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Newburn have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newburn is Blaydon, 2.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Newburn?
Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Newburn. At 37 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Newburn at risk of flooding?
5 of the 54 postcodes in Newburn 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 4 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 Newburn?
3 of the 54 postcodes now in use in Newburn came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 22 homes sold in Newburn were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE15 district, 16%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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