Morpeth
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Morpeth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Morpeth 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 66% of people in Morpeth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Morpeth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Morpeth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Morpeth at a rate of 85.0 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, 88 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Morpeth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (497), other crime (231) and anti-social behaviour (203).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Morpeth was 109.3 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 Morpeth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Morpeth has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Morpeth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 011A | 1,713 | 226.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.7% |
| Northumberland 015F | 1,631 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.1% |
| Northumberland 016A | 1,311 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.7% |
| Northumberland 016B | 1,454 | 253.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 69.9% |
| Northumberland 016E | 1,295 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Northumberland 016F | 1,970 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.7% |
| Northumberland 018A | 1,428 | 24.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Northumberland 018B | 1,221 | 16.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.4% |
| Northumberland 018C | 2,381 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Northumberland 018D | 1,605 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
Your MP
- David SmithLabourMP for North Northumberland
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 Morpeth1
Middle areas in Morpeth2
Towns near Morpeth6
Morpeth in brief
Morpeth is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 14,762 people lived in Morpeth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 302 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Morpeth was £275,000 in 2025.
Morpeth had 14,419 usual residents at the census.
About 66% of people in Morpeth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Morpeth, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.