Berwick-upon-Tweed
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Berwick-upon-Tweed is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Berwick-upon-Tweed 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 97% of people in Berwick-upon-Tweed live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Berwick-upon-Tweed compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Berwick-upon-Tweed safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Berwick-upon-Tweed at a rate of 80.4 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, 95 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (346), anti-social behaviour (235) and other crime (178).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Berwick-upon-Tweed was 82.3 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 Berwick-upon-Tweed, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Berwick-upon-Tweed has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Berwick-upon-Tweed
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 001A | 1,665 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.0% |
| Northumberland 001B | 1,550 | 152.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.5% |
| Northumberland 001C | 1,264 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Northumberland 001D | 1,713 | 86.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Northumberland 001E | 1,443 | 62.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.0% |
| Northumberland 001F | 1,556 | 69.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| Northumberland 002A | 1,117 | 141.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| Northumberland 002B | 1,612 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.2% |
| Northumberland 002E | 1,366 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 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 Berwick-upon-Tweed1
Middle areas in Berwick-upon-Tweed2
Berwick-upon-Tweed in brief
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 13,304 people lived in Berwick-upon-Tweed in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £182,000 in 2025 across 194 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Berwick-upon-Tweed was £182,000 in 2025.
Berwick-upon-Tweed had 13,181 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Berwick-upon-Tweed live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Berwick-upon-Tweed, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.