BOLAM GARDENS, NE28 0AR House Prices & Local Information

NE28 0AR is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Bolam Gardens, 0.5km from Howdon on Tyne in Wallsend. Administratively it sits within Riverside ward and the North Tyneside constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, NE28 0AR is a striving suburban area — non-UK born households working to get ahead. The daytime character shifts — white, female workforce with low qualifications, working locally. An average age of 33 points to a young professional and early-career population — ambitious, mobile, and predominantly renting. 40% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime is moderate at 51 incidents per 1,000 residents — broadly typical for this type of urban area. Property: With prices averaging £79k, this is one of the more affordable postcodes in the area, up 2.6% year-on-year. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for NE28 0AR are sourced from Output Area E00043368 (shared with 6 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.