NE22 crime rate and statistics

The NE22 postcode district, in the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,643 street-crime records for NE22 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 13.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 91.4 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

1,643

Latest month (August 2026)

150

Year-on-year

-13.6%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 169
October 2025 165
November 2025 182
December 2025 154
January 2026 43
February 2026 106
March 2026 120
April 2026 150
May 2026 156
June 2026 126
July 2026 122
August 2026 150

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.

NE22

91.4

Northumbria Police

104.1

1,643 records and 17,977 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 NE22 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 NE22

Published street-crime records in NE22, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of NE22: the south-west 423, the east 365, the west 323, the north-east 234, the south-east 126, the south 113, the centre 24, the north 19.

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 NE22's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and NE22'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 NE22 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore NE22 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for NE22 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,069
2022 2,222
2023 2,197
2024 1,952
2025 1,971
2026 (part year) 973

Is NE22 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for NE22 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in NE22 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

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Police forces

NE22's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Northumbria Police (99.8%), Durham Constabulary (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%) and Northamptonshire Police (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in NE22

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

Sector Street-crime records
NE22 5 943
NE22 6 374
NE22 7 326

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 17,977 Census 2021 residents of NE22.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 33.5% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 18.1% 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 NE22 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) £179,950 (129)
2025 £179,998 (388)
2024 £184,995 (335)
2023 £171,000 (285)
2022 £165,500 (318)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £285,000 (40) £165,000 (54) £135,000 (24) £68,500 (11)
2025 £291,995 (129) £174,950 (129) £128,750 (102) £55,000 (28)
2024 £270,000 (113) £170,000 (119) £115,000 (74) £67,000 (29)
2023 £294,950 (101) £150,000 (92) £115,500 (64) £75,000 (28)
2022 £264,950 (121) £150,000 (92) £112,500 (89) £57,750 (16)

Schools and colleges

9 open establishments with a postcode in NE22, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 9 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Bedlington Station Primary School Primary Community school
Bedlington West End Primary School Primary Community school
Bedlington Whitley Memorial Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Meadowdale Academy Primary Academy converter
St Bede's Catholic Primary School Primary Academy converter
Stead Lane Primary School Primary Community school
Bedlington Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy Secondary Academy converter
Howard House School – Other independent special 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
High2
Medium0
Low1
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 527 postcodes in NE22 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
Gigabit70.6%84.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.1%97.9%

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CrimeMapsUK. NE22 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 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/ne22/

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