Shildon
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Shildon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shildon 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 95% of people in Shildon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shildon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shildon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shildon at a rate of 171.7 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, 121 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shildon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (572), anti-social behaviour (334) and other crime (259).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shildon was 170.9 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 Shildon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shildon has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shildon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 059A | 1,441 | 130.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.0% |
| County Durham 059B | 1,816 | 231.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.2% |
| County Durham 059C | 1,720 | 210.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| County Durham 059D | 1,514 | 192.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| County Durham 059E | 2,162 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.2% |
| County Durham 059F | 1,769 | 188.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Dr Sam RushworthLabourMP for Bishop Auckland
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 Shildon1
Middle areas in Shildon1
Towns near Shildon6
Shildon in brief
Shildon is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 9,954 people lived in Shildon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £75,000 in 2025 across 115 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 171.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shildon was £75,000 in 2025.
Shildon had 9,650 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Shildon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shildon, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.