Stanley
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Stanley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stanley 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 84% of people in Stanley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stanley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stanley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stanley at a rate of 158.5 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, 276 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stanley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,101), anti-social behaviour (567) and other crime (421).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stanley was 149.6 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 Stanley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stanley has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Stanley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 004A | 1,822 | 451.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 59.9% |
| County Durham 004B | 1,735 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.8% |
| County Durham 004C | 1,791 | 109.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.2% |
| County Durham 004D | 1,564 | 91.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.5% |
| County Durham 008A | 2,055 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| County Durham 008B | 2,668 | 98.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
| County Durham 008D | 1,527 | 132.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.0% |
| County Durham 008E | 1,707 | 209.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.3% |
| County Durham 009C | 1,544 | 105.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.0% |
| County Durham 009D | 1,253 | 308.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| County Durham 009E | 1,675 | 124.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
Your MP
- Luke AkehurstLabourMP for North Durham
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 Stanley1
Middle areas in Stanley3
Towns near Stanley6
Stanley in brief
Stanley is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 19,806 people lived in Stanley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £101,000 in 2025 across 240 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 158.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stanley was £101,000 in 2025.
Stanley had 19,423 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Stanley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stanley, 89.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.