Ponteland
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Ponteland is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ponteland 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 68% of people in Ponteland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ponteland compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ponteland safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ponteland at a rate of 37.3 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, 26 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ponteland.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (120), anti-social behaviour (93) and shoplifting (74).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ponteland was 48.7 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 Ponteland, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ponteland has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ponteland
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 033A | 1,302 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 14.4% |
| Northumberland 033B | 1,446 | 23.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 4.2% |
| Northumberland 033C | 1,317 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 8.9% |
| Northumberland 033F | 2,956 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 48.4% |
| Northumberland 034B | 1,302 | 9.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 0.0% |
| Northumberland 034C | 1,340 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 0.2% |
| Northumberland 034D | 2,008 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 16.6% |
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 Ponteland1
Middle areas in Ponteland2
Towns near Ponteland6
Ponteland in brief
Ponteland is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 10,816 people lived in Ponteland in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £478,000 in 2025 across 176 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 37.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ponteland was £478,000 in 2025.
Ponteland had 10,149 usual residents at the census.
About 68% of people in Ponteland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ponteland, 17.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.