Bedlington
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Bedlington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bedlington 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 20% of people in Bedlington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bedlington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bedlington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bedlington at a rate of 92.0 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, 137 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bedlington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (512), anti-social behaviour (327) and other crime (267).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bedlington was 112.8 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 Bedlington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bedlington has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bedlington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 020A | 1,482 | 119.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Northumberland 020B | 1,827 | 93.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.5% |
| Northumberland 020C | 1,417 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Northumberland 020D | 1,339 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 020E | 1,242 | 107.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.7% |
| Northumberland 020F | 1,535 | 121.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.1% |
| Northumberland 021A | 1,664 | 82.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| Northumberland 021B | 1,083 | 170.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.3% |
| Northumberland 021C | 1,453 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Northumberland 021D | 1,832 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Northumberland 021E | 1,326 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Northumberland 021F | 1,119 | 143.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.2% |
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 Bedlington1
Middle areas in Bedlington2
Towns near Bedlington6
Bedlington in brief
Bedlington is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 16,616 people lived in Bedlington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £142,000 in 2025 across 238 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bedlington was £142,000 in 2025.
Bedlington had 16,186 usual residents at the census.
About 20% of people in Bedlington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bedlington, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.