Second Avenue Ashington, Northumberland

20 addresses across 4 postcodes (NE63), about 600 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 42005121.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £105,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 7).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashington, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hirst Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Seaton Park Medical Group, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 263 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£105,000£105,000£105,000
20232£61,500£25,000£98,000
20221£78,000£78,000£78,000
20211£77,000£77,000£77,000
20171£42,000£42,000£42,000
20151£58,000£58,000£58,000
20101£71,550£71,550£71,550
20081£90,000£90,000£90,000
20074£73,000£62,000£119,950
20063£56,000£53,500£102,000
20041£61,000£61,000£61,000
20032£32,475£25,000£39,950
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Mar 20255 NE63 0BJTerraced£105,000
22 Jan 202412 NE63 0BJTerraced£71,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Oct 20237 NE63 0BJTerraced£98,000
27 Jun 202314 NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£25,000Leasehold.
1 Aug 202218 NE63 0BJTerraced£78,000
29 Oct 20218 NE63 0BJTerraced£77,000
7 Apr 201716 NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£42,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 201717 NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£25,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Aug 20152 NE63 0BJTerraced£58,000
19 Feb 201012 NE63 0BJTerraced£71,550
31 Oct 20088 NE63 0BJTerraced£90,000
29 Oct 20077 NE63 0BJTerraced£119,950
17 Aug 200717 NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£62,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 20071 NE63 0BJTerraced£81,000
18 May 20073 NE63 0BJTerraced£65,000
23 Nov 200616 NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£56,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 20067 NE63 0BJTerraced£102,000
17 Feb 200617 NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£53,500
23 Jul 20041A NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£61,000
28 Aug 200315 NE63 0BJTerraced£25,000Leasehold.
28 Mar 20031 NE63 0BJTerraced£39,950
17 May 20027 NE63 0BJTerraced£35,000
12 May 20001A NE63 0BJFlat or maisonette£22,950
5 Jul 19962 NE63 0BJTerraced£21,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Flat (6); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1900-1929 (3); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Northumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,597 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,731£2,020£2,308£2,597£3,174£3,751£4,328£5,194

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (99% of about 1,620 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 2 September 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE63 0BJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE63 0AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE63 0BQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE63 9BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 21 addresses are between 33 m and 36 m above sea level (35 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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NE63 0AY97%97%97%0%
NE63 0BJ100%100%100%0%
NE63 0BQ100%100%100%0%
NE63 9BW100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsAshington 131,000 journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Widdrington 2,650 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Andrew's Church Hirst120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Ashington450 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations230 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL17.9 km (11 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. 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Seaton Park Medical Group1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist380 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Aqua Dental Care280 m
HospitalAshington Hospital430 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationNorthumbria Police5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM160 m

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 middle of the street 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 Hirst Park 11 ha260 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha340 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodhorn Road Allotments 12 ha520 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Woodhorn Colliery, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woodhorn CollieryScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rowlington DeanWood1.7 km (1 mile) south
Castle IslandIsland2 km (1.3 miles) south
Hawks CliffCliff or slope3 km (1.9 miles) east
Holy Brae HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-east
Long StreamLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Sandle HolesWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-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 middle of the street. 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)5.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 59130
Under 55721

14 of the street's 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Central AcademyPrimary2–11260 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Thomas Bewick C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Ashington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA James Knott CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
NCEA Bishop's Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashington AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Duke's Secondary School Church of EnglandSecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bothal AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Fry Inn NE63 9BQTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good8 May 2025
The Breakfast Club NE63 0SPTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m4 Good23 May 2025
Tasty Bites NE63 0SPTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m4 Good8 Apr 2026
Simply Food & Drinks NE63 0SPRetailers - other90 m5 Very good12 Apr 2023
Just Meat Ashington Ltd NE63 0SPRetailers - other90 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Humber Terrace Post Office NE63 9BGRetailers - other100 m4 Good5 Dec 2024
Ninja Thai Food NE63 9BGTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Ashington Minors NE63 0AHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good21 Dec 2022
Central Upper Academy NE63 9BESchool/college/university240 m5 Very good8 May 2025
Chellos Pizza & Kebab NE63 9AUTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good18 Aug 2025
Central Primary School Lower Site NE63 0AXSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
GS Convenience Store NE63 0HDRetailers - other270 m2 Improvement necessary14 Apr 2025
Glentons Bakery NE63 0HDRetailers - other270 m5 Very good8 Oct 2024
Bait Box Fish Bar NE63 0HDTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
The Fun Jungle NE63 0HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good12 Jan 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

263 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences112
Criminal damage and arson46
Anti-social behaviour21
Burglary18
Public order16
Other theft12
Other crime11
Vehicle crime10
Drugs7
Possession of weapons4
Robbery2
Bicycle theft2
Theft from the person1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near First Avenue (64); On or near Rosalind Street (47); On or near Third Avenue (46); On or near Second Avenue (41); On or near Poplar Street (39).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 652 residents in 325 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 streetEngland
Median age3840
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Hawthorn Road · Third Avenue · Rosalind Street · Maple Street · Second Avenue · Beatrice Street · Third Avenue · Third Avenue · First Avenue · Sycamore Street · Katherine Street · Poplar Street

All the streets in NE63 and across Northumberland.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.