Longbenton
TownTown in North Tyneside, North East.
Longbenton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Longbenton 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 36% of people in Longbenton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Longbenton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Longbenton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Longbenton at a rate of 71.1 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, 228 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Longbenton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (606), other crime (383) and anti-social behaviour (350).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Longbenton was 76.4 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 Longbenton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Longbenton has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Longbenton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Tyneside 012A | 1,520 | 125.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
| North Tyneside 014A | 1,438 | 164.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| North Tyneside 014B | 1,653 | 38.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| North Tyneside 014C | 1,559 | 85.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 014D | 2,014 | 15.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.5% |
| North Tyneside 018B | 1,437 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| North Tyneside 018C | 1,258 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.7% |
| North Tyneside 018E | 1,989 | 111.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| North Tyneside 018F | 1,660 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| North Tyneside 018G | 1,694 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 019A | 1,545 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| North Tyneside 019B | 1,552 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 019C | 2,236 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.9% |
| North Tyneside 019D | 1,823 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.9% |
| North Tyneside 019F | 1,101 | 154.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 74.3% |
| North Tyneside 019G | 1,048 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.2% |
Your MP
- Catherine McKinnellLabourMP for Newcastle upon Tyne North
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 Longbenton2
Middle areas in Longbenton3
Towns near Longbenton6
Longbenton in brief
Longbenton is a town in North Tyneside, North East.
About 28,033 people lived in Longbenton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £201,000 in 2025 across 411 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Longbenton was £201,000 in 2025.
Longbenton had 26,882 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Longbenton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Longbenton, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.