Alnwick
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Alnwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Alnwick add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 93% of people in Alnwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Alnwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Alnwick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Alnwick at a rate of 88.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 115.6 per 1,000 people across North East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 61 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Alnwick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (269), anti-social behaviour (148) and other crime (139).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Alnwick was 137.1 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Alnwick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Alnwick has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Alnwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 004B | 1,288 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Northumberland 005A | 1,946 | 108.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.2% |
| Northumberland 005B | 2,262 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.3% |
| Northumberland 005D | 1,056 | 158.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.4% |
| Northumberland 005E | 1,538 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- David SmithLabourMP for North Northumberland
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Alnwick1
Middle areas in Alnwick1
Towns near Alnwick5
Alnwick in brief
Alnwick is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 8,534 people lived in Alnwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £250,000 in 2025 across 182 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Alnwick was £250,000 in 2025.
Alnwick had 8,432 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Alnwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Alnwick, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.