Ferryhill
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Ferryhill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ferryhill 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 97% of people in Ferryhill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ferryhill compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ferryhill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ferryhill at a rate of 185.5 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, 154 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ferryhill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (623), other crime (265) and criminal damage and arson (199).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ferryhill was 171.3 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 Ferryhill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ferryhill has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ferryhill
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 049A | 1,421 | 229.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.9% |
| County Durham 049B | 1,225 | 242.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.1% |
| County Durham 050B | 1,489 | 124.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| County Durham 050C | 1,471 | 102.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 050D | 1,328 | 297.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.4% |
| County Durham 053F | 1,474 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Alan StricklandLabourMP for Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
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 Ferryhill1
Middle areas in Ferryhill1
Towns near Ferryhill6
Ferryhill in brief
Ferryhill is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 8,861 people lived in Ferryhill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £88,000 in 2025 across 144 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 185.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ferryhill was £88,000 in 2025.
Ferryhill had 8,857 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Ferryhill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ferryhill, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.