Blyth
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Blyth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blyth 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 46% of people in Blyth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blyth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blyth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blyth at a rate of 120.8 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, 561 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blyth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,419), anti-social behaviour (1,050) and shoplifting (849).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Blyth was 136.4 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 Blyth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Blyth has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- 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 Blyth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 022A | 1,854 | 165.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Northumberland 022B | 1,494 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 022C | 1,595 | 127.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.4% |
| Northumberland 022D | 1,908 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.2% |
| Northumberland 023A | 1,382 | 193.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Northumberland 023B | 1,557 | 475.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.9% |
| Northumberland 023C | 1,573 | 138.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Northumberland 023E | 1,536 | 129.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.0% |
| Northumberland 023F | 1,569 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Northumberland 023G | 1,762 | 161.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.4% |
| Northumberland 024A | 1,474 | 132.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.7% |
| Northumberland 024B | 1,664 | 216.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Northumberland 024C | 1,400 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.7% |
| Northumberland 024D | 1,763 | 80.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 024E | 1,521 | 94.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 025B | 2,127 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 025C | 1,840 | 293.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Northumberland 025D | 1,417 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 025E | 1,376 | 104.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Northumberland 025F | 1,042 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
| Northumberland 025G | 1,607 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.8% |
| Northumberland 026A | 1,611 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| Northumberland 026B | 1,362 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 026C | 1,845 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.9% |
| Northumberland 026D | 1,454 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
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 Blyth1
Middle areas in Blyth5
Towns near Blyth6
Blyth in brief
Blyth is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 41,673 people lived in Blyth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £148,500 in 2025 across 546 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Blyth was £148,500 in 2025.
Blyth had 39,731 usual residents at the census.
About 46% of people in Blyth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blyth, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.