Prudhoe
TownTown in Northumberland, North East.
Prudhoe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Prudhoe 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 8% of people in Prudhoe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Prudhoe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Prudhoe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Prudhoe at a rate of 62.2 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, 52 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Prudhoe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (178), anti-social behaviour (172) and other crime (102).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Prudhoe was 74.4 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 Prudhoe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Prudhoe has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Prudhoe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland 038A | 2,469 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.4% |
| Northumberland 038B | 2,665 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.4% |
| Northumberland 038C | 1,889 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| Northumberland 038D | 1,631 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.4% |
| Northumberland 038G | 2,081 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.2% |
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 Prudhoe1
Middle areas in Prudhoe1
Towns near Prudhoe6
Prudhoe in brief
Prudhoe is a town in Northumberland, North East.
About 10,478 people lived in Prudhoe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £161,000 in 2025 across 140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 62.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Prudhoe was £161,000 in 2025.
Prudhoe had 10,285 usual residents at the census.
About 8% of people in Prudhoe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Prudhoe, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.