Wallsend
TownTown in North Tyneside, North East.
Wallsend is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wallsend 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 36% of people in Wallsend live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wallsend compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wallsend safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wallsend at a rate of 98.9 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, 435 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wallsend.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,559), anti-social behaviour (807) and other crime (787).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wallsend was 123.7 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 Wallsend, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wallsend has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 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 Wallsend
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Tyneside 021A | 1,393 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.0% |
| North Tyneside 021B | 1,376 | 17.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| North Tyneside 021C | 1,359 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| North Tyneside 021D | 1,475 | 186.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.6% |
| North Tyneside 024A | 1,549 | 129.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.9% |
| North Tyneside 024B | 1,285 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| North Tyneside 024C | 1,294 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.4% |
| North Tyneside 024D | 1,386 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
| North Tyneside 025A | 1,304 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.6% |
| North Tyneside 025B | 1,667 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| North Tyneside 025C | 1,240 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.1% |
| North Tyneside 025D | 2,542 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| North Tyneside 026A | 1,581 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 026B | 1,698 | 89.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| North Tyneside 026C | 1,523 | 126.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 026D | 1,607 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 028A | 1,651 | 88.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| North Tyneside 028B | 1,675 | 121.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| North Tyneside 028C | 2,513 | 86.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.6% |
| North Tyneside 028D | 1,804 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.0% |
| North Tyneside 029A | 1,595 | 151.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| North Tyneside 029B | 1,608 | 176.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| North Tyneside 029C | 1,933 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.3% |
| North Tyneside 029D | 2,039 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
| North Tyneside 030A | 1,480 | 66.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 030B | 1,454 | 49.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.6% |
| North Tyneside 030C | 1,427 | 204.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.4% |
| North Tyneside 030D | 1,166 | 108.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| North Tyneside 030E | 1,337 | 314.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.3% |
Your MP
- Mary GlindonLabourMP for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
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 Wallsend1
Middle areas in Wallsend7
Towns near Wallsend6
Wallsend in brief
Wallsend is a town in North Tyneside, North East.
About 47,190 people lived in Wallsend in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £162,000 in 2025 across 628 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wallsend was £162,000 in 2025.
Wallsend had 45,351 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Wallsend live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wallsend, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.