Durham
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Durham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Durham 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 85% of people in Durham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Durham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Durham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Durham 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, 495 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Durham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,902), anti-social behaviour (1,132) and other crime (1,123).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Durham was 113.9 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 Durham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Durham has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Durham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 022A | 2,617 | 179.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.3% |
| County Durham 022B | 1,524 | 23.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.3% |
| County Durham 022C | 1,304 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 64.1% |
| County Durham 022D | 1,188 | 21.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.6% |
| County Durham 022E | 1,089 | 19.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 44.3% |
| County Durham 023A | 1,223 | 120.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.8% |
| County Durham 023B | 1,689 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.9% |
| County Durham 023C | 1,880 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| County Durham 023D | 1,403 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.2% |
| County Durham 028A | 1,803 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.1% |
| County Durham 028B | 1,588 | 103.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 77.6% |
| County Durham 028C | 1,267 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.5% |
| County Durham 028D | 1,318 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| County Durham 028E | 1,449 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 56.3% |
| County Durham 029A | 1,346 | 404.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.3% |
| County Durham 029B | 1,963 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| County Durham 029C | 1,706 | 335.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.8% |
| County Durham 029D | 1,732 | 133.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| County Durham 030A | 2,569 | 333.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 52.9% |
| County Durham 030E | 1,552 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 43.3% |
| County Durham 030F | 2,083 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 63.1% |
| County Durham 030H | 6,464 | 155.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 36.7% |
| County Durham 033B | 2,743 | 268.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 74.2% |
| County Durham 033C | 1,849 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 79.0% |
| County Durham 033D | 1,777 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 62.5% |
| County Durham 033F | 1,612 | 16.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.5% |
| County Durham 033H | 1,978 | 14.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
Your MP
- Mary Kelly FoyLabourMP for City of Durham
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Durham1
Middle areas in Durham6
Towns near Durham6
Durham in brief
Durham is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 52,140 people lived in Durham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 586 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 Durham was £220,000 in 2025.
Durham had 50,502 usual residents at the census.
About 85% of people in Durham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Durham, 75.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.