South Shields
TownTown in South Tyneside, North East.
South Shields is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for South Shields 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 98% of people in South Shields live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How South Shields compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is South Shields safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in South Shields at a rate of 120.5 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, 883 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in South Shields.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,780), anti-social behaviour (1,899) and other crime (1,395).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in South Shields was 143.9 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 South Shields, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so South Shields has no single figure. Of its 53 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 16 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 14 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 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 South Shields
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Tyneside 001A | 1,414 | 103.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.8% |
| South Tyneside 001B | 1,416 | 642.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.0% |
| South Tyneside 001C | 2,332 | 217.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.6% |
| South Tyneside 001D | 1,470 | 79.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| South Tyneside 001E | 1,444 | 107.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.5% |
| South Tyneside 002A | 1,214 | 526.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| South Tyneside 002B | 1,254 | 97.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 002C | 1,848 | 187.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.9% |
| South Tyneside 002D | 1,705 | 297.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 74.3% |
| South Tyneside 002E | 1,398 | 217.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.8% |
| South Tyneside 003A | 1,133 | 19.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| South Tyneside 003B | 1,239 | 39.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.7% |
| South Tyneside 003C | 1,167 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.8% |
| South Tyneside 003D | 1,302 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.9% |
| South Tyneside 003E | 1,111 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.9% |
| South Tyneside 004A | 1,443 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| South Tyneside 004B | 1,332 | 60.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| South Tyneside 004C | 1,538 | 103.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.5% |
| South Tyneside 004D | 1,881 | 116.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.0% |
| South Tyneside 005A | 1,210 | 150.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.5% |
| South Tyneside 005B | 1,437 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 005C | 1,151 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.1% |
| South Tyneside 005D | 1,226 | 254.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.6% |
| South Tyneside 006A | 1,353 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.3% |
| South Tyneside 006B | 1,306 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| South Tyneside 006C | 1,186 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| South Tyneside 006D | 1,399 | 73.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| South Tyneside 008A | 1,429 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 008B | 1,223 | 100.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.0% |
| South Tyneside 008C | 1,381 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| South Tyneside 008D | 1,402 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| South Tyneside 011A | 1,393 | 151.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.6% |
| South Tyneside 011B | 1,239 | 110.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.6% |
| South Tyneside 011C | 1,208 | 160.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| South Tyneside 011D | 1,777 | 86.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.4% |
| South Tyneside 012C | 1,047 | 151.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.1% |
| South Tyneside 013A | 1,665 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| South Tyneside 013C | 1,379 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| South Tyneside 013F | 1,467 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.6% |
| South Tyneside 013G | 1,531 | 72.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 66.7% |
| South Tyneside 014C | 1,139 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.5% |
| South Tyneside 016A | 1,349 | 89.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.0% |
| South Tyneside 016B | 1,126 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 016C | 1,751 | 129.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| South Tyneside 016D | 1,470 | 133.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 016E | 1,506 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| South Tyneside 018A | 1,313 | 71.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 65.7% |
| South Tyneside 018B | 1,026 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.3% |
| South Tyneside 019A | 1,335 | 145.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| South Tyneside 019B | 1,431 | 125.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 019C | 1,359 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| South Tyneside 019D | 1,138 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| South Tyneside 019E | 1,346 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
Your MP
- Emma LewellLabourMP for South Shields
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Council1
Postcode districts covering South Shields2
Middle areas in South Shields11
Towns near South Shields6
South Shields in brief
South Shields is a town in South Tyneside, North East.
About 74,784 people lived in South Shields 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 797 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in South Shields was £160,000 in 2025.
South Shields had 73,326 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in South Shields live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In South Shields, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.