Spennymoor
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Spennymoor is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Spennymoor 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 52% of people in Spennymoor live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Spennymoor compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Spennymoor safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Spennymoor at a rate of 143.7 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, 275 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Spennymoor.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,172), anti-social behaviour (490) and other crime (468).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Spennymoor was 128.3 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 Spennymoor, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Spennymoor has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 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 Spennymoor
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 047A | 1,200 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.8% |
| County Durham 047B | 1,406 | 90.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 047C | 1,012 | 94.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| County Durham 047D | 1,538 | 29.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| County Durham 047E | 1,534 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| County Durham 049C | 1,933 | 306.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.1% |
| County Durham 049E | 1,909 | 163.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| County Durham 049F | 1,398 | 251.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| County Durham 052A | 2,146 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| County Durham 052C | 1,774 | 143.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.2% |
| County Durham 052D | 1,469 | 211.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| County Durham 052F | 1,618 | 209.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.2% |
| County Durham 052G | 1,389 | 94.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Alan StricklandLabourMP for Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
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 Spennymoor1
Middle areas in Spennymoor3
Towns near Spennymoor6
Spennymoor in brief
Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 21,540 people lived in Spennymoor in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £145,000 in 2025 across 305 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 143.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Spennymoor was £145,000 in 2025.
Spennymoor had 20,401 usual residents at the census.
About 52% of people in Spennymoor live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Spennymoor, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.