Seaham
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Seaham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Seaham 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 100% of people in Seaham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Seaham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Seaham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Seaham at a rate of 127.1 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, 276 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Seaham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (765), anti-social behaviour (663) and criminal damage and arson (394).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Seaham was 98.4 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 Seaham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Seaham has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Seaham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 016A | 1,079 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| County Durham 016D | 1,523 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.6% |
| County Durham 016E | 1,802 | 85.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.6% |
| County Durham 016F | 2,007 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.7% |
| County Durham 016H | 2,145 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| County Durham 017A | 1,397 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| County Durham 017B | 1,107 | 164.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
| County Durham 017C | 1,705 | 110.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.6% |
| County Durham 017D | 1,247 | 105.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.0% |
| County Durham 017E | 1,223 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| County Durham 017F | 1,487 | 485.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.1% |
| County Durham 018A | 1,778 | 106.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| County Durham 018B | 1,235 | 238.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 018C | 1,215 | 154.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 018D | 1,320 | 103.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
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 Seaham1
Middle areas in Seaham3
Towns near Seaham6
Seaham in brief
Seaham is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 22,008 people lived in Seaham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £130,000 in 2025 across 277 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 127.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Seaham was £130,000 in 2025.
Seaham had 21,660 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Seaham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Seaham, 94.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.