Peterlee
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Peterlee is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Peterlee 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 29% of people in Peterlee live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Peterlee compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Peterlee safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Peterlee at a rate of 152.8 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, 344 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Peterlee.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,137), anti-social behaviour (524) and other crime (471).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Peterlee was 143.4 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 Peterlee, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Peterlee has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Peterlee
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 032A | 1,279 | 278.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| County Durham 032C | 1,243 | 201.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| County Durham 032D | 1,398 | 209.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| County Durham 032E | 1,559 | 137.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| County Durham 035A | 1,131 | 126.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| County Durham 035B | 1,205 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| County Durham 035C | 1,461 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| County Durham 035D | 1,112 | 101.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.3% |
| County Durham 035E | 1,041 | 182.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.4% |
| County Durham 035F | 1,278 | 178.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| County Durham 037A | 1,072 | 461.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.2% |
| County Durham 037B | 1,169 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
| County Durham 037C | 1,493 | 162.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.1% |
| County Durham 037D | 1,189 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| County Durham 037E | 1,532 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| County Durham 039E | 1,166 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
Your MP
- Grahame MorrisLabourMP for Easington
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 Peterlee1
Middle areas in Peterlee3
Towns near Peterlee6
Peterlee in brief
Peterlee is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 20,169 people lived in Peterlee in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £105,000 in 2025 across 206 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 152.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Peterlee was £105,000 in 2025.
Peterlee had 19,750 usual residents at the census.
About 29% of people in Peterlee live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Peterlee, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.