Ryton
TownTown in Gateshead, North East.
Ryton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ryton 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 3% of people in Ryton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ryton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ryton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ryton at a rate of 81.2 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, 111 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ryton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (194), anti-social behaviour (158) and violence and sexual offences (154).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ryton was 76.2 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 Ryton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ryton has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ryton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateshead 001A | 1,385 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Gateshead 001B | 1,538 | 91.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.3% |
| Gateshead 001C | 2,678 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.7% |
| Gateshead 001D | 1,503 | 207.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.6% |
| Gateshead 001E | 1,425 | 76.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.6% |
| Gateshead 002F | 1,319 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.6% |
Your MP
- Liz TwistLabourMP for Blaydon and Consett
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 Ryton2
Middle areas in Ryton1
Towns near Ryton6
Ryton in brief
Ryton is a town in Gateshead, North East.
About 9,234 people lived in Ryton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £198,000 in 2025 across 166 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ryton was £198,000 in 2025.
Ryton had 8,804 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in Ryton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ryton, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.