Blaydon
TownTown in Gateshead, North East.
Blaydon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blaydon 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 0% of people in Blaydon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blaydon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blaydon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blaydon at a rate of 93.8 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, 86 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blaydon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (332), anti-social behaviour (324) and shoplifting (220).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Blaydon was 112.5 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 Blaydon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Blaydon has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Blaydon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateshead 004A | 1,597 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Gateshead 004B | 1,352 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Gateshead 004C | 1,714 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% |
| Gateshead 004D | 1,527 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| Gateshead 004E | 1,848 | 181.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.1% |
| Gateshead 005A | 1,278 | 173.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.2% |
| Gateshead 005B | 1,137 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.6% |
| Gateshead 005C | 1,540 | 135.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 63.2% |
| Gateshead 005E | 1,358 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
Your MP
- Liz TwistLabourMP for Blaydon and Consett
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 Blaydon1
Middle areas in Blaydon2
Towns near Blaydon6
Blaydon in brief
Blaydon is a town in Gateshead, North East.
About 14,512 people lived in Blaydon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,000 in 2025 across 213 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Blaydon was £155,000 in 2025.
Blaydon had 14,237 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Blaydon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blaydon, 91.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.