Whickham South and Sunniside

Deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Range shows spread across 7 Lower Super Output Areas in this area.

	More deprivedLess deprived	Whickham South and Sunniside average (lo–hi)
Overall		75% (23–98)
Income		73% (22–99)
Employment		69% (20–93)
Education		82% (36–98)
Health		54% (19–70)
Crime		71% (28–100)
Housing & services		54% (16–86)
Living environment		76% (51–94)

Your MP

Mark Ferguson MP

Labour

Gateshead Central and Whickham

mark.ferguson.mp@parliament.uk

School locations from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. GCSE results from Key Stage 4 performance tables. Attainment 8 is the average score across 8 subjects; English & Maths 5+ is the percentage achieving grade 5 or above in English and Maths.

10 nearest schools offering GCSEs · results 2024–25

School	Distance	Admissions	Attainment 8	English & Maths 5+
Whickham School	1.1 mi	Non-sel	53.0	60%

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🚧 GP Practices

design review needed — #210

GP practice locations from NHS Organisation Data Service.

Name	Distance	Type
SUNNISIDE SURGERY	0.9 mi	GP practice
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE	2.2 mi	GP practice
HOLLYHURST MEDICAL CENTRE	4.3 mi	GP practice
OLDWELL SURGERY	4.3 mi	GP practice
CHAINBRIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP	3.9 mi	GP practice

🚧 Listed Buildings

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Listed building data from Historic England.

Name	Distance	Grade
LODGES AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLOCKBURN LANE	0.6 mi	II
Old Sunniside Farmhouse	0.7 mi	II
FORGE SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION WITH A692	2.6 mi	II
OLD HOLLINSIDE	1.4 mi	I
SALISBURY HOUSE	2.0 mi	II

🚧 Green Spaces

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Green space data from OS Open Greenspace.

Name	Distance	Type
Greenspace access point	0.4 mi	Sports facility
Greenspace access point	0.7 mi	Park
Greenspace access point	0.6 mi	Park
Greenspace access point	0.5 mi	Sports facility
Greenspace access point	3.4 mi	Playing field

🚧 Bathing Water

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Bathing water quality from the Environment Agency.

Name	Distance
Littlehaven Beach	18.1 mi
South Shields	17.8 mi

🚧 Transport

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Transport stop data from NaPTAN.

Name	Distance	Type
Metrocentre Rail Station	3.7 mi	Rail station
Dunston Rail Station	4.8 mi	Rail station
Blaydon Rail Station	5.0 mi	Rail station
Newcastle Rail Station	7.1 mi	Rail station
Central Station (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)	7.5 mi	Metro/tram

House Prices

Based on Land Registry Price Paid data. Median prices for completed sales (Category A) by property type. England & Wales.

Median sale price by type

	Yours	Trend	Position
All types	£147,500
Detached	£340,000
Semi-detached	£122,500
Terraced	£147,500
Flat	£117,500

Crime

From police.uk open data, aggregated by postcode district. Rates are per 1,000 resident population per month.

Offences per 1,000 population per month

	Yours	Trend	Position
Total crime	13.1
Violent crime	4.1
Burglary	1.6
Anti-social behaviour	3.6

Broadband

From the Ofcom Connected Nations report, aggregated by postcode district. Download and upload are mean speeds; FTTP is percentage of premises with full fibre availability.

Average speeds and coverage

	Yours	Trend	Position
Download	84.8 Mbps
Upload	23.0 Mbps
FTTP coverage	30.0%

🚧 Rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Estimated average monthly gross rent by bedroom count.

design review needed — #201

	Yours	Trend	Position
All bedrooms	£782
1 bed	£575
2 bed	£703
3 bed	£820
4+ bed	£1,173

🚧 Air Quality

DEFRA Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) modelled concentrations, µg/m³.

design review needed — #202

	Yours	Trend	Position
PM2.5	6
PM10	9
NO₂	7
NOₓ	9

🚧 Road Casualties

DfT STATS19 reported road casualties by severity.

design review needed — #203

	Yours	Trend	Position
All collisions	2
Fatal	0
Serious	2
Killed/serious	2
Pedestrian	1
Cyclist	—

🚧 Traffic

DfT road traffic statistics.

design review needed — #204

	Yours	Trend	Position
All motor vehicles	1,104,100,000
Cars & taxis	871,000,000

🚧 Flood Risk

Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea.

design review needed — #205

	Yours	Trend	Position
Rivers & sea	0

🚧 Companies

Companies House free company data product.

design review needed — #206

	Yours	Trend	Position
Active companies	7,146
Total registered	7,817
Dormant	126
New (last year)	1,207
New (last 5 years)	3,642