NE40 3PZ Gateshead

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Ryton, Crookhill & Stella. Region: North East.

Streets

House prices and rents in Gateshead

A typical home in Gateshead cost £156,036 in August 2026, 4.4% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 29% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£287,336
Semi-detached£181,868
Terraced£152,031
Flat or maisonette£97,856
Bought by a first-time buyer£141,251

Private renters in Gateshead paid £808 a month on average in September 2026, 5.7% more than a year before. That is 39% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£593
Two bedrooms£727
Three bedrooms£848
Four or more bedrooms£1,202

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Gateshead in 2026-27: Band D £2,716 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,811£2,112£2,414£2,716£3,319£3,923£4,526£5,432

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (40% of about 630 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 7.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

5 energy projects near the postcode, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Newburn Bridge Road - Battery Storage Facility Gateshead DC/21/00922/FUL Battery storage 100 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2022 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Newburn BESS - Battery Energy Storage System Newcastle upon Tyne 2024/0447/01/DET Battery storage 90 MW Planning application made May 2024 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Burnhills Landfill Scheme (L4) Gateshead 176/98 Landfill Gas 1.5 MW Operational Jun 2005 2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Burnhills Landfill (L5) Gateshead 176/98 Landfill Gas 3.8 MW Operational May 2006 2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Path Head Gateshead 1236/02 Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Feb 2009 2.6 km (1.6 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 45 times, for 67 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Tyne Estuary, River Tyne Estuarine Waters, River Tyne Saline Estuary, River Tyne.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Cso at Church Dene Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary 5 1 410 m (0.3 miles)
Station Bank Cso Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters 40 66 430 m (0.3 miles)
Blaney Row Pumping Station Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 540 m (0.3 miles)
Greenside Cso Northumbrian Water; monitored 84% of the year River Tyne 0 0 870 m (0.5 miles)
Holburn Lane Cso, Ryton - Nwl Name Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary 0 0 870 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 390 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Ryton B Holburn Dene Holburn Lane, Crookhill Not recorded Not recorded 390 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 6 addresses are between 48 m and 50 m above sea level (49 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWylam 111,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Blaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
MetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ryton Village40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Winlaton3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Throckley Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Stations1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL8.3 km (5.1 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesNewburn Surgery Good Feb 20261.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ryton Dental490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalPrudhoe Hospital Team C5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ryton Towers Good Jul 2023210 m
Police stationNorthumbria Police - Etal Lane Police Station5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Ryton - Parsons Drive Cashzone600 m (0.4 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 120 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Willows Montessori Nursery NE40 3QP Full day care 54 Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 120 m
Little Adventurers Day Nursery Limited NE40 3AG Full day care 39 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Crookhill Early Years NE40 3ES Full day care 60 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 54 childminders and 11 home childcarers (nannies) in Gateshead. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Village Green 920 m²30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Tyne Riverside Country Park 69 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,410 m²280 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.4 ha920 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blayney Row Allotments 4,890 m²790 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 98 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ryton village cross 160m south east of church, a scheduled monument, 40 m. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Ryton village cross 160m south east of churchScheduled monument40 m
The RectoryListed building, Grade II*120 m north-west
Church of Holy CrossListed building, Grade I170 m north-west
Motte, 50m north of Holycross Church, RytonScheduled monument200 m north-west
Battle of Newburn Ford 1640Registered battlefield1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Church DeneValley230 m north-west
Ryton IslandIsland540 m (0.3 miles) north
Newburn SandsWetland790 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Cathouse PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Maryside HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Shibdon PondLake or reservoir4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 5536

3 of the postcode's 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Aug 2024 09:35 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Gateshead: see them on the Gateshead page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 267 residents in 119 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Barmoor Lane.