NE16 crime rate and statistics

The NE16 postcode district, in the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,279 street-crime records for NE16 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 15.1% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 51.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 104.1 for Northumbria Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

1,279

Latest month (August 2026)

116

Year-on-year

-15.1%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 111
October 2025 165
November 2025 117
December 2025 131
January 2026 48
February 2026 68
March 2026 115
April 2026 113
May 2026 97
June 2026 114
July 2026 84
August 2026 116

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

NE16

51.8

Northumbria Police

104.1

1,279 records and 24,708 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of NE16 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in NE16

Published street-crime records in NE16, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of NE16: the north-east 806, the east 235, the north 142, the south-west 118, the south 57, the south-east 17.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 270 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of NE16's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and NE16's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of NE16 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore NE16 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for NE16 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,684
2022 1,652
2023 1,838
2024 1,480
2025 1,598
2026 (part year) 755

Is NE16 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for NE16 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in NE16 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

NE16's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Northumbria Police (86.0%) and Durham Constabulary (14.0%).

Postcode sectors in NE16

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
NE16 3 296
NE16 4 394
NE16 5 399
NE16 6 189
NE16 9 1

Council areas

NE16 is mostly in the Gateshead council area, and also covers parts of the County Durham council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 24,708 Census 2021 residents of NE16.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 12.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 39.2% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About NE16 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £166,000 (179)
2025 £199,000 (424)
2024 £206,250 (400)
2023 £205,500 (328)
2022 £185,000 (426)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £320,000 (30) £190,000 (69) £150,750 (58) £122,500 (22)
2025 £384,500 (112) £210,000 (144) £150,000 (139) £98,000 (29)
2024 £340,000 (104) £210,000 (142) £154,500 (122) £100,000 (32)
2023 £350,000 (83) £215,500 (116) £130,600 (95) £93,750 (34)
2022 £324,995 (102) £196,000 (137) £137,000 (145) £90,500 (42)

Schools and colleges

11 open establishments with a postcode in NE16, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 11 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Burnopfield Primary School Primary Community school
Clover Hill Community Primary School Primary Community school
Fellside Community Primary School Primary Community school
Front Street Community Primary School Primary Community school
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Byermoor Primary Academy converter
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whickham Primary Academy converter
Swalwell Primary School Primary Community school
Washingwell Community Primary School Primary Community school
Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Whickham School Secondary Academy converter
Liberty School – Other independent school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High7
Medium6
Low3
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 760 postcodes in NE16 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit56.7%65.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)89.3%95.3%

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CrimeMapsUK. NE16 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/ne16/

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