Consett
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Consett is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Consett 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 21% of people in Consett live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Consett compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Consett safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Consett at a rate of 96.4 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, 342 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Consett.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,045), anti-social behaviour (564) and other crime (453).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Consett was 84.6 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 Consett, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Consett has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 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 Consett
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 003A | 1,492 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.1% |
| County Durham 003B | 1,804 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 58.2% |
| County Durham 003C | 1,823 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| County Durham 010A | 1,693 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.6% |
| County Durham 010B | 2,222 | 296.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 71.7% |
| County Durham 010C | 2,169 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 76.5% |
| County Durham 010D | 1,356 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 72.3% |
| County Durham 010E | 2,031 | 189.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 72.8% |
| County Durham 012A | 2,390 | 82.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| County Durham 012B | 1,702 | 65.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| County Durham 012C | 2,043 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| County Durham 014A | 1,350 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.3% |
| County Durham 014B | 1,590 | 126.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 76.4% |
| County Durham 014E | 1,533 | 101.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.5% |
| County Durham 014F | 1,239 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.9% |
| County Durham 014G | 1,551 | 102.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.7% |
| County Durham 014H | 1,283 | 108.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
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 Consett1
Middle areas in Consett3
Towns near Consett6
Consett in brief
Consett is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 30,573 people lived in Consett in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £154,000 in 2025 across 557 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Consett was £154,000 in 2025.
Consett had 29,874 usual residents at the census.
About 21% of people in Consett live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Consett, 84.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.