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On Oxford Street, in Whitley Bay Promenade
What it's like at NE26 1AE: every home that has sold on Oxford Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Oxford Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 57 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Oxford StreetTerraced | Aug 2017 | £236,400 | 142 m² | £1,665/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Oxford StreetTerraced | Oct 1999 | £37,000 | 113 m² | £327/m² | 1 |
| 5, Oxford StreetTerraced | Nov 2024 | £395,000 | 145 m² | £2,724/m² | 2 |
| 6, Oxford StreetTerraced | Oct 2017 | £200,000 | 189 m² | £1,058/m² | 3 |
| 8, Oxford StreetTerraced | Mar 2016 | £225,000 | 185 m² | £1,216/m² | 2 |
| 9, Oxford StreetSemi-detached | Aug 1995 | £54,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Oxford StreetFlat | Mar 2009 | £125,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 12, Oxford StreetTerraced | Jun 2010 | £162,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 13, Oxford StreetTerraced | Jun 2013 | £158,000 | 194 m² | £814/m² | 1 |
| 14, Oxford StreetTerraced | Nov 2000 | £67,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Oxford StreetTerraced | Dec 1996 | £57,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Oxford StreetTerraced | Jan 1998 | £64,500 | 168 m² | £384/m² | 1 |
| 19, Oxford StreetTerraced | Feb 2021 | £225,000 | 128 m² | £1,758/m² | 1 |
| 20, Oxford StreetTerraced | Apr 2003 | £120,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Oxford StreetTerraced | Dec 2007 | £179,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Oxford StreetTerraced | Dec 2005 | £189,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 24, Oxford StreetTerraced | Dec 2013 | £193,000 | 154 m² | £1,253/m² | 2 |
| 26, Oxford StreetTerraced | Jun 2004 | £143,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Oxford StreetTerraced | Jul 2022 | £380,000 | 137 m² | £2,774/m² | 1 |
| 32, Oxford StreetTerraced | Aug 2018 | £185,359 | 133 m² | £1,394/m² | 1 |
| 36, Oxford StreetTerraced | Oct 2021 | £300,000 | 121 m² | £2,479/m² | 5 |
| 38, Oxford StreetTerraced | Nov 2019 | £207,000 | 116 m² | £1,784/m² | 2 |
| 40, Oxford StreetTerraced | Apr 2017 | £212,000 | 140 m² | £1,514/m² | 2 |
| 42, Oxford StreetTerraced | Oct 2022 | £365,000 | 127 m² | £2,874/m² | 1 |
| 44, Oxford StreetTerraced | Feb 1997 | £45,750 | 148 m² | £309/m² | 1 |
| 46, Oxford StreetTerraced | Jul 2015 | £190,000 | 125 m² | £1,520/m² | 3 |
| 48, Oxford StreetTerraced | Feb 2021 | £245,000 | 118 m² | £2,076/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Whitley Bay Metro station, about a 5-minute walk (550 m). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 4.9 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Park Avenue-Beach Avenue, 100 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 309, 308, 57, 57A); 59 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Marine Park First School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Marden Bridge Middle School, 800 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Whitley Bay High School (1.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Local, 250 m away, with Acorn Community Church closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Park Parade Surgery (350 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, FHS-Foston Hair Systems is under 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is South Tyneside District Hospital, 7.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 60% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 75% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 39 restaurants and cafés and 17 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Beach House is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Promenade Club the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 143 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 35% flats and 1% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 66% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Whitley Park, 150 m away; for exercise, Snap Fitness (250 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Whitley Bay, 900 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 16 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 195 km.
63 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Tynemouth constituency: Sir Alan Campbell MP (Labour), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,455 (31.9%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Labour 51%, Conservative 19%, Reform UK 15%, Green Party 7%.
4 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near NE26 1AE →
Most households own their home, 22% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 48% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 58 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 41 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.3% | 94.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.2% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.9% | 0.3% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in North Tyneside since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 57 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.