NE8 crime rate and statistics

The NE8 postcode district, in the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 4,875 street-crime records for NE8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 20.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 150.4 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

4,875

Latest month (August 2026)

470

Year-on-year

-20.3%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 505
October 2025 564
November 2025 524
December 2025 430
January 2026 127
February 2026 286
March 2026 302
April 2026 415
May 2026 441
June 2026 408
July 2026 403
August 2026 470

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.

NE8

150.4

Northumbria Police

104.1

4,875 records and 32,408 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 NE8 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 NE8

Published street-crime records in NE8, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of NE8: the north 890, the east 881, the south-west 743, the west 715, the south-east 682, the north-east 441, the south 390, the north-west 254, the centre 71.

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 NE8's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and NE8'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 NE8 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore NE8 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for NE8 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 6,545
2022 6,414
2023 6,468
2024 6,306
2025 6,084
2026 (part year) 2,852

Is NE8 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for NE8 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in NE8 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

NE8's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Northumbria Police (99.5%), Durham Constabulary (0.4%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.1%), Dyfed-Powys Police (0.0%) and Metropolitan Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in NE8

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

Sector Street-crime records
NE8 1 1,758
NE8 2 728
NE8 3 1,233
NE8 4 1,156

Council area

NE8 is in the Gateshead 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 32,408 Census 2021 residents of NE8.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 74.3% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% 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 NE8 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) £149,000 (192)
2025 £140,000 (329)
2024 £136,000 (363)
2023 £130,000 (410)
2022 £132,000 (511)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £240,000 (5) £160,000 (33) £182,000 (64) £112,500 (90)
2025 £257,500 (15) £164,000 (52) £170,000 (105) £110,000 (157)
2024 £274,995 (12) £153,000 (43) £169,995 (141) £103,000 (167)
2023 £257,500 (6) £153,500 (28) £166,400 (106) £115,000 (270)
2022 £206,692 (24) £151,700 (52) £150,000 (147) £105,000 (288)

Schools and colleges

17 open establishments with a postcode in NE8, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 17 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Gateshead College 16 plus Further education
Bensham Grove Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Brighton Avenue Primary School Primary Community school
Caedmon Community Primary School Primary Community school
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Primary Academy converter
Kelvin Grove Community Primary School Primary Community school
South Street Community Primary School Primary Community school
St Aidan's Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Primary Academy converter
St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School, Dunston Primary Academy converter
Eslington Primary School – Community special school
Gateshead Jewish Boarding School – Other independent school
Gateshead Jewish Nursery School – Other independent school
Gibside School – Community special school
Haskel School – Other independent special school
Keser Girls School – Other independent school
Keser Torah Boys' 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
High10
Medium1
Low3
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 740 postcodes in NE8 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
Gigabit64.2%82.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)93.2%97.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. NE8 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/ne8/

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