Walbottle

11°COvercast

• Today: 19° / 11° · 16% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 12° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:34Sunset 19:31

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

89 reported · July 2026▼ 17% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour23
• Violence & sexual offences23
• Burglary18
• Criminal damage & arson7

1 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Westerhope and Newburn · Northumbria

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

434 reported road collisions (2024)

104 killed or seriously injured · 514 casualties · 14.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

152 food businesses within 2 miles

• 135 rated 4–5 ★ (115 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

1 active warning/alert

• Flood alert: Tyne estuary

Source: Environment Agency

• Nearest station: Blaydon (4.0 km)
• 31 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£208,589 average▲ 6.7% YoY

Across Newcastle upon Tyne · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,207 average monthly rent▲ 9.8% YoY

• 1 bed £810
• 2 bed £1,001
• 3 bed £1,187

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

5.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.7 times median annual pay (5.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · BP (10.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · BP (10.1 km)

25 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

62 charging locations within ~8 km

• 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Chapel House Service Station (1.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Sports pitches32
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

300,125 residents in Newcastle upon Tyne · 2,646/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 68%
• 65+: 15%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 74 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

26% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,542 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (55% of 140,770)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

113 schools · 46,647 pupils

72 primary · 12 secondary · 29 other

Ofsted: 31 of 34 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

100inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Newcastle upon Tyne

276 CQC-registered services

• Care homes74
• GP practices49
• Dentists69
• Homecare agencies49
• Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Newcastle upon Tyne

• Within the Green Belt
• 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

270 applications decided

83% granted · 224 granted, 46 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Joe Morris

Labour

Hexham

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat (minority)

• Lab 2
• LD 25
• Grn 23
• Ref 23
• Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools8
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,600 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

3 jobs advertised · £56,957 avg

e.g. Design Technology Teacher, Quarry Manager, Teacher of Food Technology

Source: Adzuna

£692 median full-time weekly pay

4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£19,762 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 151,348 certificates

11.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

34% low-carbon electricity

Imports 66% · Nuclear 16% · Biomass 14% · Wind 5%

19 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.4 yrs women · 78.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.7 women · 60.3 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hexham:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership376 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office368 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership302 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases256 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills248 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Walbottle Academy · 0.1 km

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  Milecastle 10 · 0.3 km

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  Throckley · 0.8 km

  Throckley is a village in the Newcastle upon Tyne district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of Newcastle city centre. Hadrian's Wall passed through the village, its course t…

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  Walbottle · 1.0 km

  Walbottle is a village in the Newcastle upon Tyne district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is west of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• Chapel House Estate · 1.0 km

  Chapel House is a suburban housing estate in the outer west of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, that was designed by John. T. Bell and built from 1964 until the early 1970s. Made up of private properties, it is approxima…

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  Newburn Town Hall · 1.4 km

  Newburn Town Hall is a former municipal building in Newburn Road, Newburn, a district of Newcastle upon Tyne, in Tyne and Wear, England. The building, which is currently in mixed commercial and residential use, is a G…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)