Killingworth
TownTown in North Tyneside, North East.
Killingworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Killingworth 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 1% of people in Killingworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Killingworth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Killingworth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Killingworth at a rate of 71.7 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, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Killingworth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (240), anti-social behaviour (224) and other crime (128).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Killingworth was 97.2 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 Killingworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Killingworth has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Killingworth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Tyneside 002C | 1,505 | 34.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.1% |
| North Tyneside 008A | 1,593 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 008B | 1,775 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| North Tyneside 008C | 1,810 | 88.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.5% |
| North Tyneside 008D | 1,516 | 132.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.2% |
| North Tyneside 012C | 1,375 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.4% |
| North Tyneside 012D | 1,696 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.5% |
Your MP
- Emma FoodyLabour (Co-op)MP for Cramlington and Killingworth
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 Killingworth1
Middle areas in Killingworth2
Towns near Killingworth6
Killingworth in brief
Killingworth is a town in North Tyneside, North East.
About 12,296 people lived in Killingworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £175,000 in 2025 across 161 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Killingworth was £175,000 in 2025.
Killingworth had 12,180 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Killingworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Killingworth, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.