Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme is covered by postcode districts ST4, ST5 and ST55. It is mostly in the Newcastle-under-Lyme council area: 1,873 of its 1,881 postcodes. The others are in Stafford.
Every postcode in Newcastle-under-Lyme, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 32
- At medium risk at worst: 12
- At low risk at worst: 23
- At very low risk only: 2
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,812
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,881 postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme that ONS places, 32 have a home or business at high risk, 12 are at medium risk at worst, 23 are at low risk at worst, 2 are at very low risk only and 1,812 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. 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 53.0186, longitude -2.2349. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
32 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 12 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ST5 6PL, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ST5 2TB, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. ST5 9JB, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
Homes sold for a typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,557 of the 1,827 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 345 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 69 of its 1,881 postcodes. It has 22 primary schools, 5 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Longport, 2.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
Homes in Newcastle-under-Lyme sold for a typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 805 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £195,000 from 1,110 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £300,000 202 sales
- Semi-detached £195,000 364 sales
- Terraced £138,000 198 sales
- Flat or maisonette £95,000 41 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole ST5 district, Newcastle-under-Lyme's main postcode district: a typical £195,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newcastle-under-Lyme: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
49 of the 1,881 postcodes now in use in Newcastle-under-Lyme came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 53 of the 1,110 homes sold in Newcastle-under-Lyme were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ST5 district, 8%.
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 Newcastle-under-Lyme | Across the ST5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 805 (Under 1%) | 5 of 850 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 53 of 1,110 (5%) | 98 of 1,208 (8%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
Ofcom reports on 1,827 of the 1,881 postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme. At 1,557 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Newcastle-under-Lyme at risk of flooding?
69 of the 1,881 postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 345 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
The open schools at the postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme (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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School650 m 444 pupils, 455 places
- Hempstalls Primary School650 m 501 pupils, 420 places
- St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy1.0 km 360 pupils, 420 places
- Knutton St Marys CofE Academy1.1 km 168 pupils, 300 places
- Demetae Academy1.1 km 50 pupils, 60 places
- Hassell Primary School1.2 km 173 pupils, 210 places
- Newcastle-under-Lyme School1.4 km 868 pupils, 1,121 places
- May Bank Infants' School1.5 km 173 pupils, 180 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Newcastle-under-Lyme?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme is Longport Rail Station, 2.9 km away in a straight line.
- Longport Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
- Stoke-on-Trent Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
- Longton Rail Station Railway station 7.3 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Milehouse Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01782 663830 550 mWalk
- Higherland Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01782 917840 1.1 kmWalk
- Miller Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01782 711618 1.2 kmCycle
- Lyme Valley Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01782 615367 1.6 kmCycle
- Wolstanton Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report March 2026 · Phone 01782 627488 1.8 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Newcastle-under-Lyme safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,128 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme 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
- 350 September 2025
- 370 October 2025
- 294 November 2025
- 314 December 2025
- 293 January 2026
- 323 February 2026
- 368 March 2026
- 313 April 2026
- 328 May 2026
- 379 June 2026
- 450 July 2026
- 346 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 120, other crime 68, robbery 51, possession of weapons 38, bicycle theft 35, theft from the person 19.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Newcastle-under-Lyme?
- Councils
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (1,873) and Stafford (8)
- County council
- Staffordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (1,873) and Stoke-on-Trent South (8)
- Police force area
- Staffordshire
- Region
- West Midlands
- 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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Newcastle-under-Lyme
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Newcastle-under-Lyme is in Newcastle-under-Lyme; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Newcastle-under-Lyme about council tax Council tax, on newcastle-staffs.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Newcastle-under-Lyme
- 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 Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Newcastle-under-Lyme postcodes
1,881 postcodes in use in Newcastle-under-Lyme, by district:
Those districts are all in the ST postcode area.
Check a Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Newcastle-under-Lyme's £190,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Newcastle-under-Lyme
- What is the postcode for Newcastle-under-Lyme?
- Postcode districts ST4, ST5 and ST55, with 1,881 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
- A typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 805 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Hempstalls Primary School and St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include St John Fisher Catholic College, Demetae Academy and The Orme Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Newcastle-under-Lyme have a railway station?
- The nearest is Longport station, 2.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
- Ofcom reports on 1,827 of the 1,881 postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme. At 1,557 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Newcastle-under-Lyme at risk of flooding?
- 69 of the 1,881 postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 345 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Newcastle-under-Lyme?
- 49 of the 1,881 postcodes now in use in Newcastle-under-Lyme came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 53 of the 1,110 homes sold in Newcastle-under-Lyme were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ST5 district, 8%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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