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Guisborough

Town

Town in Redcar and Cleveland, North East.

Guisborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Guisborough 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 30% of people in Guisborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£190,000
Joint 180th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
18,091
591st most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
30%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
88.2%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Guisborough compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

GuisboroughMiddle
Median sale price60 towns, North East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in North East60 areas from £75,000 to £478,000. The middle area is £161,500. Guisborough is £190,000.
£190,00018th most expensive
Population60 towns, North East · 2021
Population: every town in North East60 areas from 7,544 to 286,472. The middle area is 20,076. Guisborough is 18,091.
18,09128th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares60 towns, North East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in North East60 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 38.0%. Guisborough is 30.0%.
30%28th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage60 towns, North East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in North East60 areas from 17.0% to 98.8%. The middle area is 94.2%. Guisborough is 88.2%.
88.2%7th lowest

Is Guisborough safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Guisborough at a rate of 96.0 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, 150 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Guisborough.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (519), anti-social behaviour (377) and shoplifting (298).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Guisborough was 104.4 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 Guisborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Guisborough has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Guisborough

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Redcar and Cleveland 018A2,050328.8 per 1,000365.0%
Redcar and Cleveland 018B1,34591.0 per 1,000397.4%
Redcar and Cleveland 018C2,061153.0 per 1,000370.0%
Redcar and Cleveland 018D1,278140.1 per 1,000196.9%
Redcar and Cleveland 019E1,63622.6 per 1,0001093.1%
Redcar and Cleveland 019F2,52244.9 per 1,000989.3%
Redcar and Cleveland 019G2,40758.5 per 1,000599.6%
Redcar and Cleveland 020A1,254126.3 per 1,000587.3%
Redcar and Cleveland 020B1,55679.5 per 1,0001089.9%
Redcar and Cleveland 020C1,32132.8 per 1,0001091.8%
Redcar and Cleveland 020D1,44334.4 per 1,0001099.2%

Your MP

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 Guisborough1

Middle areas in Guisborough3

Towns near Guisborough6

Guisborough in brief

Guisborough is a town in Redcar and Cleveland, North East.

About 18,287 people lived in Guisborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 273 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Guisborough was £190,000 in 2025.

Guisborough had 18,091 usual residents at the census.

About 30% of people in Guisborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Guisborough, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.