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On Balkwell Avenue, in Chirton
What it's like at NE29 7JN: every home that has sold on Balkwell Avenue 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Balkwell Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
17 of the 127 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 5, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Jun 2013 | £102,500 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Apr 2025 | £170,000 | 88 m² | £1,932/m² | 1 |
| 9, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Dec 2024 | £192,000 | 110 m² | £1,745/m² | 3 |
| 10, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jul 2013 | £48,000 | 59 m² | £814/m² | 1 |
| 11, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | May 1996 | £40,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jul 2013 | £48,000 | 72 m² | £667/m² | 1 |
| 13, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Aug 2002 | £66,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jul 2013 | £50,000 | 60 m² | £833/m² | 2 |
| 15, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Dec 2013 | £105,000 | 137 m² | £766/m² | 1 |
| 16, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Nov 2003 | £57,000 | 54 m² | £1,056/m² | 1 |
| 17, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Jun 2019 | £140,000 | 109 m² | £1,284/m² | 2 |
| 18, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Nov 2011 | £55,000 | 59 m² | £932/m² | 2 |
| 19, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Jul 2012 | £100,000 | 110 m² | £909/m² | 1 |
| 20, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Nov 2025 | £82,000 | 56 m² | £1,464/m² | 2 |
| 23, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Jan 2000 | £48,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jan 2018 | £60,000 | 59 m² | £1,017/m² | 3 |
| 25, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | May 2014 | £106,000 | 100 m² | £1,060/m² | 1 |
| 27, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Feb 2003 | £77,800 | – | – | 2 |
| 29, Balkwell AvenueTerraced | Mar 2016 | £175,000 | 127 m² | £1,378/m² | 2 |
| 34, Balkwell AvenueFlat · company-owned | Mar 2023 | £77,500 | 68 m² | £1,140/m² | 2 |
| 36, Balkwell AvenueFlat · company-owned | Mar 2023 | £95,000 | 67 m² | £1,418/m² | 1 |
| 38, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Feb 2018 | £86,500 | 64 m² | £1,352/m² | 2 |
| 39, Balkwell AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2005 | £100,000 | 81 m² | £1,235/m² | 1 |
| 40, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jul 2015 | £61,000 | 60 m² | £1,017/m² | 2 |
| 41, Balkwell AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2007 | £113,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 44, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Mar 2002 | £25,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 46, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jul 2004 | £76,000 | 46 m² | £1,652/m² | 3 |
| 48, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jul 2004 | £76,000 | 59 m² | £1,288/m² | 3 |
| 50, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Apr 2018 | £65,000 | 53 m² | £1,226/m² | 2 |
| 52, Balkwell AvenueOther | Apr 2018 | £65,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 54, Balkwell AvenueOther | Nov 2020 | £100,000 | 58 m² | £1,724/m² | 1 |
| 58, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Jan 1997 | £17,500 | 81 m² | £216/m² | 1 |
| 60, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Dec 1996 | £20,600 | – | – | 1 |
| 62, Balkwell AvenueFlat | Aug 2007 | £85,000 | 58 m² | £1,466/m² | 3 |
| 64, Balkwell AvenueFlat | May 2019 | £65,100 | 59 m² | £1,103/m² | 4 |
| 72, Balkwell AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2018 | £76,000 | 63 m² | £1,206/m² | 3 |
The nearest station is Meadow Well Metro station, about a 10-minute walk (650 m). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 4.3 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Wallsend Road-Wooler Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (route 301); 34 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
43% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Collingwood Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 61% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is New York Primary School (1.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Norham High School, 200 m away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Wilfrid's RC College (4.3 km) and Whitley Bay High School (4.6 km).
It's a family area: 22% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 950 m away, with Premier Wallsend Road/Uppals Minimarket closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Meadow Well Health Centre (450 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Kings Barber Shop is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is South Tyneside District Hospital, 4.9 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Go North East is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and The Pineapple Inn the nearest pub (100 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 136 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 34% flats and 4% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 42% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 391 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Redburn Park, 600 m away; for exercise, Team Ferguson Gym (400 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Tynemouth Long Sands South, 3.7 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 14 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 191 km.
34 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%.
23 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 NE29 7JN →
On this street: 0 of 74 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 | 1.4% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.6% | 94.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 23% rent privately.
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.
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 127 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 52 min
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