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Gateshead · England

Felling population

34,355people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Felling has a population of 34,355, making it the 2nd largest place in Gateshead. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 34,355, a rise of 0.0% since.

34,355
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
#2
of 7 in Gateshead
The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Gateshead population trends, 2001–2024.

Felling in context

2 km
north-west to Gateshead, the nearest larger town
667,774
people live within 10 km
#381
largest of 6,358 UK places
724
food businesses in Gateshead
Felling in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The centre of Felling sits in postcode district NE10.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Gateshead, the billing authority covering Felling, is £2,716 for 2026–27.

From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.

Common questions

What is the population of Felling?
The populated place itself holds 34,355 residents. The wider Gateshead council area recorded 202,760 in 2024. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Gateshead, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district NE10
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Gateshead

#PlacePopulation
1Gateshead77,649
2Whickham16,625
3Blaydon-on-Tyne15,155
4Rowlands Gill6,096
5Lamesley3,928

All 7 places in Gateshead →