Crook
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Crook is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Crook 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 59% of people in Crook live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Crook compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Crook safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Crook at a rate of 128.4 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, 135 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Crook.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (431), anti-social behaviour (268) and criminal damage and arson (207).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Crook was 119.1 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 Crook, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Crook has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Crook
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 045A | 1,731 | 68.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.6% |
| County Durham 045B | 1,787 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.6% |
| County Durham 045F | 1,575 | 180.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.7% |
| County Durham 046A | 1,516 | 266.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.8% |
| County Durham 046B | 2,178 | 75.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 71.3% |
| County Durham 046D | 1,334 | 89.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.1% |
Your MP
- Dr Sam RushworthLabourMP for Bishop Auckland
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 Crook1
Towns near Crook6
Crook in brief
Crook is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 9,879 people lived in Crook in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £122,500 in 2025 across 124 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 128.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Crook was £122,500 in 2025.
Crook had 9,717 usual residents at the census.
About 59% of people in Crook live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Crook, 84.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.