Brambles & Thorntree
WardNorth east Middlesbrough. About 9,776 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Brambles & Thorntree live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brambles & Thorntree compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brambles & Thorntree safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brambles & Thorntree at a rate of 193.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 190.9 per 1,000 people across Middlesbrough.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 142 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brambles & Thorntree.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (672), criminal damage and arson (293) and other crime (287).
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 Middlesbrough
These figures are published for the whole of Middlesbrough, not for each ward, so they describe all of Middlesbrough and not Brambles & Thorntree alone. See Middlesbrough
Brambles & Thorntree in brief
Brambles & Thorntree had 9,312 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Brambles & Thorntree live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brambles & Thorntree, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Brambles & Thorntree, 6.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.