Newcastle upon Tyne

What is it like to live in Newcastle upon Tyne?

Homes sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 4,923 of the 5,959 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 285 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 88 of its 6,226 postcodes. It has 69 primary schools, 15 secondary schools and 6 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 Newcastle, 2.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 upon Tyne?

Homes in Newcastle upon Tyne sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 2,364 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £199,950 from 3,153 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £357,000 253 sales
• Semi-detached £210,000 765 sales
• Terraced £187,750 810 sales
• Flat or maisonette £155,000 536 sales

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

Across the whole NE3 district, Newcastle upon Tyne's main postcode district: a typical £276,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newcastle upon Tyne: 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 upon Tyne?

190 of the 6,226 postcodes now in use in Newcastle upon Tyne came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 156 of the 3,153 homes sold in Newcastle upon Tyne were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE3 district, 3%.

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

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 upon Tyne?

Ofcom reports on 5,959 of the 6,226 postcodes in Newcastle upon Tyne. At 4,923 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Newcastle upon Tyne at risk of flooding?

88 of the 6,226 postcodes in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 285 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 upon Tyne?

The open schools at the postcodes in Newcastle upon Tyne (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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Newcastle upon Tyne?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newcastle upon Tyne is Newcastle Rail Station, 2.5 km away in a straight line.

• Newcastle Rail Station Railway station 2.5 kmCycle
• Manors Rail Station Railway station 2.5 kmCycle
• Metrocentre Rail Station Railway station 4.0 kmCycle
• West Jesmond (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) Underground, metro or tram 1.5 kmCycle
• Haymarket (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) Underground, metro or tram 1.7 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Newcastle upon Tyne?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Newcastle upon Tyne, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Dilston Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 219 6975 1.5 kmCycle
• Roseworth Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 213 2392 1.6 kmCycle
• Jesmond Health Partnership Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 281 4588 1.7 kmCycle
• The Grove Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2015, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 210 6680 1.7 kmCycle
• Fenham Hall Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 274 3724 1.8 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Newcastle upon Tyne safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 2,599 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Newcastle upon Tyne 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 78, drugs 76, bicycle theft 58, robbery 35, theft from the person 24, possession of weapons 22.

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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Newcastle upon Tyne?

Councils

Newcastle upon Tyne (6,183) and North Tyneside (43)

Parliamentary constituencies

Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (3,080), Newcastle upon Tyne North (1,733), Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend (1,378) and 1 other

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.