Wideopen

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• Today: 23° / 14° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:28

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

60 reported · July 2026▲ 58% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour24
• Violence & sexual offences16
• Shoplifting6
• Other theft3

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Killingworth · 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)

115 food businesses within 2 miles

• 109 rated 4–5 ★ (101 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Wansbeck Road (3.5 km)
• 20 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 (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · Morrisons (11.3 km)

33 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

87 charging locations within ~8 km

• 19 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Costa Gosforth (1.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches25
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds7

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 16 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

Emma Foody

Labour (Co-op)

Cramlington and Killingworth

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat (minority)

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

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens17
• Restaurants & cafés6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,600 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

11 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Chemistry Tutor - Part Time, Become a Maths Tutor in Wideopen – Flexible & Remote, Online Computer science Tutoring Job in Wideopen – Flexible Schedule

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

61% low-carbon electricity

Imports 39% · Wind 32% · Nuclear 17% · Biomass 12%

15 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 Cramlington and Killingworth:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership399 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth384 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office379 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s365 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test323 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Sacred Heart Church, North Gosforth · 0.5 km

  The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church and ecclesiastical parish in North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. Situated between Wideopen village…

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  Wideopen · 0.5 km

  Wideopen, also occasionally misspelled as Wide Open, is a village in the North Tyneside metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England, around 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Newcastle.

• Hazlerigg · 0.6 km

  Hazlerigg is a village and civil parish north of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the city centre, on the A1. It is split between Newcastle upon Tyne and…

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  Brunswick Village · 1.0 km

  Brunswick Village is a village split between North Tyneside and Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne, and borders Hazlerigg, Dinnington and Wid…

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  Gosforth House · 1.3 km

  Gosforth House now known as Brandling House is a Grade II listed building built as a mansion house and now serving as a hospitality and conference centre at Gosforth Park Racecourse, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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  Parklands and North Gosforth · 1.3 km

  Parklands and North Gosforth is an electoral ward of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. It encompasses the northern edge of the suburb of Gosforth, north of the Metro line and bisected north–south by the Great…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)