Wideopen

Wideopen is covered by postcode districts NE3 and NE13. It is mostly in the North Tyneside council area: 93 of its 99 postcodes. The others are in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Typical price £238,000 Homes sold in Wideopen, last 12 months. ▲ 13.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 72 of 98 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 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Wideopen, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Wideopen, by flood risk Of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen that ONS places, 99 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Wideopen. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A1A1056 NE13 6AA: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AB: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AD: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AE: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AH: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AJ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AL: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AN: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AP: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AQ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AR: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AS: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AT: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AU: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AW: not on the flood risk listNE13 6AZ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6BA: not on the flood risk listNE13 6DH: not on the flood risk listNE13 6DW: not on the flood risk listNE13 6DX: not on the flood risk listNE13 6ED: not on the flood risk listNE13 6EE: not on the flood risk listNE13 6EF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6EG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JA: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JB: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JD: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JE: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JH: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JJ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JN: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JP: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JQ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JR: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JS: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JT: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JU: not on the flood risk listNE13 6JW: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LD: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LE: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LH: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LJ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LL: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LN: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LP: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LR: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LS: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LT: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LU: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LW: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LX: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LY: not on the flood risk listNE13 6LZ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NA: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NB: not on the flood risk listNE13 6ND: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NE: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NH: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NJ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NL: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NN: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NP: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NQ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NR: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NS: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NT: not on the flood risk listNE13 6NU: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PA: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PB: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PD: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PL: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PN: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PP: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PR: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PS: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PT: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PU: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PW: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PX: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PY: not on the flood risk listNE13 6PZ: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QA: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QB: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QD: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QE: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QF: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QG: not on the flood risk listNE13 6QH: not on the flood risk listNE3 5EB: not on the flood risk list Wideopen Map of every postcode in Wideopen, by flood risk Of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen that ONS places, 99 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Wideopen. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A1A1056 Wideopen
  • 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: 99

Of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen that ONS places, 99 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 55.0470, longitude -1.6245. 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 Wideopen?

Homes sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 13.4% on the 12 months before. At 72 of the 98 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 99 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 2 primary schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cramlington, 4.8 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 Wideopen?

Homes in Wideopen sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 77 sales, up 13.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£238,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£209,950
12 months to August 2026
£238,000

▲ up 13.4% on the 12 months before

Detached£305,000 7 sales
Semi-detached£236,500 46 sales
Terraced£220,000 22 sales
Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole NE13 district, Wideopen's main postcode district: a typical £246,250.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wideopen: 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 Wideopen?

None of the 99 postcodes now in use in Wideopen came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 111 homes sold in Wideopen were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE13 district, 28%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn WideopenAcross the NE13 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 77 (0%) 28 of 362 (8%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 111 (0%) 155 of 552 (28%)

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 Wideopen?

Ofcom reports on 98 of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen. At 72 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit72 of 98
Postcodes where every home can get superfast98 of 98

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 Wideopen at risk of flooding?

None of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen 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 Wideopen?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Wideopen. 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

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

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 Wideopen?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wideopen is Cramlington Rail Station, 4.8 km away in a straight line.

  • Cramlington Rail Station Railway station 4.8 kmCycle
  • Newcastle Airport Metro Station Railway station 5.6 kmDrive
  • Seaton Delaval Rail Station Railway station 6.3 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Wideopen?

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

Police.uk records 612 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wideopen 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. 58 September 2025
  2. 86 October 2025
  3. 38 November 2025
  4. 43 December 2025
  5. 23 January 2026
  6. 26 February 2026
  7. 65 March 2026
  8. 42 April 2026
  9. 57 May 2026
  10. 48 June 2026
  11. 60 July 2026
  12. 66 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Anti-social behaviour171 reports
Violence and sexual offences166 reports
Other theft44 reports
Criminal damage and arson43 reports
Burglary43 reports
Public order37 reports
Shoplifting36 reports
Other crime28 reports

Also: vehicle crime 26, drugs 8, bicycle theft 4, possession of weapons 3, robbery 2, theft from the person 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 Wideopen?

Councils
North Tyneside (93) and Newcastle upon Tyne (6)
Parliamentary constituencies
Cramlington and Killingworth (93) and Newcastle upon Tyne North (6)
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 Wideopen

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Wideopen postcodes

99 postcodes in use in Wideopen, by district:

NE13 postcode district,98 postcodesNE3 postcode district,1 postcode

Those districts are all in the NE postcode area.

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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 Wideopen

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wideopen's £238,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Hazlerigg0.9 km, £220,000Dudley, North Tyneside2.7 km, £147,250Dinnington, Newcastle upon Tyne3.4 km, £263,000Killingworth3.6 km, £165,000Longbenton4.6 km, £210,000Cramlington5.0 km, £185,000Seghill5.1 km, £160,000Backworth6.2 km, £318,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Wideopen

What is it like to live in Wideopen?
Homes sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 13.4% on the 12 months before. At 72 of the 98 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 99 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 2 primary schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cramlington, 4.8 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 Wideopen?
Wideopen is covered by postcode districts NE3 and NE13, across 99 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Wideopen?
Homes in Wideopen sold for a typical £238,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 77 sales, up 13.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Wideopen?
In Wideopen, primary schools at its postcodes include Hazlewood Community Primary School and Greenfields Community Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is North Gosforth Academy, 1.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Wideopen have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wideopen is Cramlington, 4.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Wideopen?
Ofcom reports on 98 of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen. At 72 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Wideopen at risk of flooding?
None of the 99 postcodes in Wideopen 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 Wideopen?
None of the 99 postcodes now in use in Wideopen came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 111 homes sold in Wideopen were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE13 district, 28%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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