Redcar
TownTown in Redcar and Cleveland, North East.
Redcar is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Redcar 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 2% of people in Redcar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Redcar compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Redcar safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Redcar at a rate of 127.9 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, 456 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Redcar.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,710), anti-social behaviour (868) and other crime (825).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Redcar was 135.5 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 Redcar, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Redcar has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Redcar
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redcar and Cleveland 001A | 1,446 | 666.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 001B | 1,549 | 198.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 001C | 2,074 | 259.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 001D | 1,402 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 002A | 1,381 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 002B | 1,603 | 105.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 002C | 1,522 | 105.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 002D | 1,364 | 69.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 003C | 1,333 | 114.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 003D | 1,356 | 277.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.4% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 003E | 1,132 | 197.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 003F | 1,494 | 179.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.6% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004A | 1,419 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004B | 1,369 | 70.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004C | 1,366 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004D | 2,134 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004E | 1,624 | 17.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004F | 1,368 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 004G | 1,597 | 40.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 005A | 1,094 | 223.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 005B | 1,368 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 005C | 2,437 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 005D | 1,199 | 126.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 005E | 1,375 | 168.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Redcar and Cleveland 006A | 2,938 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.1% |
Your MP
- Anna TurleyLabour (Co-op)MP for Redcar
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 Redcar1
Middle areas in Redcar5
Towns near Redcar6
Redcar in brief
Redcar is a town in Redcar and Cleveland, North East.
About 38,428 people lived in Redcar in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 447 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 127.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Redcar was £160,000 in 2025.
Redcar had 37,666 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Redcar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Redcar, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.