Birtley
TownTown in Gateshead, North East.
Birtley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Birtley 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 79% of people in Birtley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Birtley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Birtley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Birtley at a rate of 74.0 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, 87 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Birtley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (317), anti-social behaviour (221) and other crime (188).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Birtley was 99.0 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 Birtley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Birtley has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Birtley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateshead 025A | 1,620 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Gateshead 025B | 1,852 | 113.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.8% |
| Gateshead 025C | 2,659 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
| Gateshead 026A | 1,725 | 59.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.1% |
| Gateshead 026B | 1,501 | 101.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Gateshead 026C | 2,142 | 74.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.7% |
| Gateshead 026D | 1,432 | 140.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 79.6% |
| Gateshead 026E | 1,473 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.0% |
Your MP
- Mrs Sharon HodgsonLabourMP for Washington and Gateshead South
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 Birtley1
Middle areas in Birtley2
Towns near Birtley6
Birtley in brief
Birtley is a town in Gateshead, North East.
About 14,207 people lived in Birtley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £195,675 in 2025 across 210 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Birtley was £195,675 in 2025.
Birtley had 13,840 usual residents at the census.
About 79% of people in Birtley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Birtley, 90.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.