Ashington
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Ashington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashington 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 17% of people in Ashington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashington at a rate of 117.1 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, 336 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,173), anti-social behaviour (751) and other crime (552).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashington was 147.9 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 Ashington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashington has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Ashington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 010A | 1,342 | 258.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Northumberland 010B | 1,068 | 271.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.7% |
| Northumberland 010C | 1,488 | 199.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.2% |
| Northumberland 010D | 1,738 | 220.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 010E | 1,506 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 013A | 1,688 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
| Northumberland 013B | 1,880 | 136.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.2% |
| Northumberland 013E | 2,859 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Northumberland 013F | 2,283 | 143.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.3% |
| Northumberland 041A | 1,745 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.5% |
| Northumberland 041B | 2,031 | 84.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.3% |
| Northumberland 041C | 1,278 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 041D | 1,128 | 24.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 041E | 1,287 | 109.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 041F | 1,320 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 041G | 1,607 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| Northumberland 041H | 2,033 | 135.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
Your MP
- Ian LaveryLabourMP for Blyth and Ashington
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 Ashington1
Middle areas in Ashington3
Towns near Ashington6
Ashington in brief
Ashington is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 30,082 people lived in Ashington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £145,000 in 2025 across 433 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 117.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashington was £145,000 in 2025.
Ashington had 28,279 usual residents at the census.
About 17% of people in Ashington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashington, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.