NE16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

755 of the district's 929 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 54.93078, -1.69298, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in NE16

Companies House lists 1,183 companies with a registered office in NE16; 25 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for NE16

• North East
• Gateshead
• Whickham
• County Durham
• Burnopfield
• Sunniside
• Hobson
• Crookgate Bank
• Street Gate
• Marley Hill
• Byermoor
• Blaydon
• Pickering Nook
• Mountsett
• Fellside
• Causey

Roads filed under NE16

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbots Way
• Albion Gardens
• Albury Place
• Alexandra Drive
• Allerdene Walk
• Allerton Place
• Allwork Terrace
• Alnwick Close
• Amberly Grove
• Amberly Walk
• Ancaster Road
• Ancrum Way
• Arlington Grove
• Arthur Cook Avenue
• Arundel Walk
• Ashfield Avenue
• Ashfield Park
• Ashfield Rise
• Ashfield Road
• Aspen Grove
• Aston Way
• Axwell Terrace
• Axwell View
• Back Row
• Bank Avenue
• Barcusclose Lane
• Beamishburn Road
• Beech Avenue
• Beverley Drive
• Bexley Place
• Bideford Grove
• Birch Crescent
• Birchfield
• Birchwood Avenue
• Birkheads Lane
• Birkland Lane
• Blackthorn Close
• Blake Avenue
• Blaxton Place
• Blaydon Highway
• Borrowdale
• Bowes Close
• Bowesville
• Bowness Road
• Brackenridge
• Brentwood Gardens
• Brewery Bank
• Brewery Lane
• Briardene
• Briarsyde Close
• Brinkburn Avenue
• Broadmeadows Close
• Broadway
• Brooke Avenue
• Broom Close
• Broom Lane
• Bryans Leap
• Bullfinch Drive
• Burdon Lodge
• Burdon Park

Check an address in NE16

Check an address in NE16

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NE16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NE16

What does an NE16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NE16 district of the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Whickham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 755 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest NE16

• NE213.5 km
• NE113.8 km
• NE394.4 km
• NE45.7 km
• NE86.2 km
• NE156.4 km
• NE406.5 km
• NE996.8 km
• NE96.9 km
• NE17.0 km
• DH97.0 km
• NE57.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids