Whickham
TownTown in Gateshead, North East.
Whickham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whickham 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 0% of people in Whickham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whickham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whickham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whickham at a rate of 88.7 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, 133 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whickham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (349), violence and sexual offences (323) and other crime (257).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whickham was 115.6 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 Whickham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whickham has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whickham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateshead 009A | 1,569 | 445.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 67.7% |
| Gateshead 009B | 1,388 | 133.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Gateshead 009C | 1,443 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Gateshead 009D | 1,331 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Gateshead 009E | 1,290 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.4% |
| Gateshead 017A | 1,485 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.3% |
| Gateshead 017B | 1,462 | 15.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.7% |
| Gateshead 017C | 1,278 | 19.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Gateshead 017D | 1,335 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Gateshead 017E | 1,404 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Gateshead 019D | 1,388 | 15.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.7% |
Your MP
- Mark FergusonLabourMP for Gateshead Central and Whickham
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 Whickham1
Middle areas in Whickham2
Towns near Whickham6
Whickham in brief
Whickham is a town in Gateshead, North East.
About 15,843 people lived in Whickham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 224 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whickham was £225,000 in 2025.
Whickham had 15,680 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Whickham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whickham, 90.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.