Burn Valley
WardEast Hartlepool. About 8,107 people in 2.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 60% of people in Burn Valley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Burn Valley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Burn Valley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Burn Valley at a rate of 322.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 161.2 per 1,000 people across Hartlepool.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 278 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Burn Valley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,050), other crime (473) and anti-social behaviour (455).
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 Hartlepool
These figures are published for the whole of Hartlepool, not for each ward, so they describe all of Hartlepool and not Burn Valley alone. See Hartlepool
Burn Valley in brief
Burn Valley had 7,633 usual residents at the census.
About 60% of people in Burn Valley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Burn Valley, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Burn Valley, 6.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.