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On Wharton Street, in South Shields East
What it's like at NE33 3JS: every home that has sold on Wharton 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). 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 Wharton Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
8 of the 69 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Wharton StreetTerraced | May 2000 | £60,000 | 66 m² | £909/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15, Wharton StreetFlat | Nov 2001 | £30,950 | 69 m² | £449/m² | 2 |
| 20, Wharton StreetTerraced | Feb 2003 | £84,000 | 75 m² | £1,120/m² | 1 |
| 24, Wharton StreetTerraced | Sept 2015 | £100,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Wharton StreetOther | Jul 2024 | £80,000 | 83 m² | £964/m² | 3 |
| 27, Wharton StreetTerraced | Sept 2014 | £62,000 | 76 m² | £816/m² | 1 |
| 28, Wharton StreetTerraced | Apr 2004 | £78,855 | 68 m² | £1,160/m² | 3 |
| 30, Wharton StreetFlat · company-owned | Nov 2019 | £65,000 | 65 m² | £1,000/m² | 4 |
| 32, Wharton StreetTerraced | Jul 2008 | £73,950 | 60 m² | £1,233/m² | 1 |
| 36, Wharton StreetFlat | Sept 2025 | £66,000 | 70 m² | £943/m² | 4 |
| 38, Wharton StreetOther | Nov 2023 | £75,000 | 84 m² | £893/m² | 4 |
| 40, Wharton StreetFlat | Jan 2006 | £76,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 42, Wharton StreetFlat | Aug 2006 | £95,000 | 48 m² | £1,979/m² | 2 |
| 44, Wharton StreetFlat | Sept 2007 | £69,000 | 72 m² | £958/m² | 2 |
| 50, Wharton StreetTerraced | Jul 2022 | £59,500 | 99 m² | £601/m² | 5 |
| 52, Wharton StreetTerraced | Aug 2010 | £80,000 | 170 m² | £471/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is South Shields Metro station, about a 10-minute walk (750 m). The nearest rail station is Brockley Whins, 4.3 km away.
The nearest bus stop is Westoe Road-Hyde Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 24, 27, 18, 4); 180 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 43 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Bede's Catholic Primary School, South Shields, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 77% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Mortimer Community College, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 41.9 · 6.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Wilfrid's RC College (2.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 50 m away; The Tech Surgery (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Imery Street Surgery (500 m), with Carter'S Chemist the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Sparks Hair Stylist is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is South Tyneside District Hospital, 3.0 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: 38 restaurants and cafés and 21 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Blue Marlin is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Trams the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (22 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 234 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 31 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 45% flats and 2% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 52% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is South Marine Park, 900 m away; for exercise, The Gym (350 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: South Shields, 1.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 17 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 191 km.
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
56 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Roman Catholic Church of St Bede and attached Presbytery including attached walls and detached wall to south | II | 180 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
South Shields constituency: Emma Lewell MP (Labour), since May 2013. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,653 (18.1%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 15%, Conservative 11%.
14 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 NE33 3JS →
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.
On this street: 0 of 43 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.7% | 96.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.9% | 2.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.1% | 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.
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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 69 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 66 min
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