Whickham South & Sunniside
WardSouth west Gateshead. About 7,920 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 14 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 33% of people in Whickham South & Sunniside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whickham South & Sunniside compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whickham South & Sunniside safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whickham South & Sunniside at a rate of 38.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 95.2 per 1,000 people across Gateshead.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 24 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whickham South & Sunniside.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (99), other crime (80) and anti-social behaviour (63).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Gateshead
These figures are published for the whole of Gateshead, not for each ward, so they describe all of Gateshead and not Whickham South & Sunniside alone. See Gateshead
Whickham South & Sunniside in brief
Whickham South & Sunniside had 7,887 usual residents at the census.
About 33% of people in Whickham South & Sunniside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whickham South & Sunniside, 77.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Whickham South & Sunniside, 1.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.