NE38 crime rate and statistics

The NE38 postcode district, in the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,083 street-crime records for NE38 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.2% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 65.9 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

2,083

Latest month (August 2026)

164

Year-on-year

-6.2%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 228
October 2025 200
November 2025 192
December 2025 201
January 2026 73
February 2026 128
March 2026 153
April 2026 157
May 2026 197
June 2026 172
July 2026 218
August 2026 164

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.

NE38

65.9

Northumbria Police

104.1

2,083 records and 31,618 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 NE38 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 NE38

Published street-crime records in NE38, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of NE38: the north-west 991, the north-east 362, the west 264, the south-west 225, the north 221, the east 141, the south 93, the south-east 67.

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 NE38's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and NE38'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 NE38 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore NE38 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for NE38 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,679
2022 2,625
2023 2,419
2024 2,295
2025 2,363
2026 (part year) 1,262

Is NE38 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for NE38 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in NE38 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

NE38's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Northumbria Police (99.1%), Durham Constabulary (0.7%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%) and Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in NE38

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

Sector Street-crime records
NE38 0 599
NE38 7 681
NE38 8 565
NE38 9 238

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 31,618 Census 2021 residents of NE38.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 26.1% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 14.5% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

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 NE38 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) £155,000 (191)
2025 £175,000 (365)
2024 £160,000 (295)
2023 £165,000 (283)
2022 £148,500 (353)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £311,500 (48) £176,000 (55) £127,500 (71) £72,000 (17)
2025 £322,500 (106) £181,250 (104) £130,000 (131) £62,500 (24)
2024 £323,750 (82) £171,500 (82) £122,500 (101) £66,500 (30)
2023 £315,000 (80) £175,000 (81) £124,998 (96) £67,750 (26)
2022 £286,250 (94) £163,000 (101) £120,000 (113) £63,000 (45)

Schools and colleges

16 open establishments with a postcode in NE38, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 16 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Oxclose Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Barmston Village Primary School Primary Community school
Biddick Primary School Primary Community school
Fatfield Academy Primary Academy converter
Holley Park Academy Primary Academy converter
John F Kennedy Primary School Primary Academy converter
Lambton Primary School Primary Community school
Oxclose Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Rickleton Primary School Primary Community school
St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington Primary Academy converter
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington Primary Academy converter
Wessington Primary School Primary Community school
Biddick Academy Secondary Academy converter
Oxclose Community Academy Secondary Academy converter
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington Secondary Academy converter
Columbia Grange School – Academy special converter

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
High4
Medium0
Low1
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 659 postcodes in NE38 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
Gigabit72.1%80.9%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)90.7%93.9%

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CrimeMapsUK. NE38 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/ne38/

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