Hexham
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Hexham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hexham 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 91% of people in Hexham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hexham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hexham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hexham at a rate of 64.9 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, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hexham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (199), anti-social behaviour (179) and other crime (149).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hexham was 75.7 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 Hexham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hexham has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hexham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 035B | 1,477 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 78.7% |
| Northumberland 035C | 1,721 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.0% |
| Northumberland 035D | 1,491 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 51.2% |
| Northumberland 035E | 1,678 | 26.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.0% |
| Northumberland 035F | 1,566 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.1% |
| Northumberland 035G | 2,445 | 74.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 63.1% |
Your MP
- Joe MorrisLabourMP for Hexham
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 Hexham1
Middle areas in Hexham1
Towns near Hexham6
Hexham in brief
Hexham is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 11,255 people lived in Hexham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £271,000 in 2025 across 206 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hexham was £271,000 in 2025.
Hexham had 10,945 usual residents at the census.
About 91% of people in Hexham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hexham, 73.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.