Crawcrook and Greenside
TownTown in Gateshead, North East.
Crawcrook and Greenside is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Crawcrook and Greenside 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 7% of people in Crawcrook and Greenside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Crawcrook and Greenside compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Crawcrook and Greenside safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Crawcrook and Greenside at a rate of 48.6 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Crawcrook and Greenside.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (139), other crime (81) and anti-social behaviour (66).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Crawcrook and Greenside was 50.5 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 Crawcrook and Greenside, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Crawcrook and Greenside has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Crawcrook and Greenside
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateshead 002A | 1,986 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.4% |
| Gateshead 002B | 1,710 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.9% |
| Gateshead 002C | 1,647 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.4% |
| Gateshead 002D | 1,315 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.6% |
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 Crawcrook and Greenside1
Middle areas in Crawcrook and Greenside1
Towns near Crawcrook and Greenside6
Crawcrook and Greenside in brief
Crawcrook and Greenside is a town in Gateshead, North East.
About 7,606 people lived in Crawcrook and Greenside in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £170,000 in 2025 across 137 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Crawcrook and Greenside was £170,000 in 2025.
Crawcrook and Greenside had 7,544 usual residents at the census.
About 7% of people in Crawcrook and Greenside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Crawcrook and Greenside, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.