Whitley Bay
TownTown in North Tyneside, North East.
Whitley Bay is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitley Bay 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 70% of people in Whitley Bay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitley Bay compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitley Bay safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitley Bay at a rate of 65.4 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, 303 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitley Bay.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (588), anti-social behaviour (536) and violence and sexual offences (513).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whitley Bay was 72.3 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 Whitley Bay, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitley Bay has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whitley Bay
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Tyneside 001A | 1,401 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| North Tyneside 001B | 1,798 | 18.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.3% |
| North Tyneside 001C | 1,537 | 23.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| North Tyneside 001D | 1,428 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| North Tyneside 003A | 1,399 | 24.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| North Tyneside 003B | 1,301 | 12.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 003C | 1,597 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| North Tyneside 003D | 1,616 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 005A | 1,581 | 17.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| North Tyneside 005B | 1,221 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| North Tyneside 005C | 1,429 | 83.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Tyneside 005D | 1,542 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 006A | 1,623 | 379.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| North Tyneside 006B | 1,529 | 109.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| North Tyneside 006C | 1,374 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| North Tyneside 006D | 1,589 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.8% |
| North Tyneside 006E | 1,459 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| North Tyneside 007A | 1,568 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| North Tyneside 007B | 1,426 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| North Tyneside 009A | 1,596 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 009B | 1,732 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 009C | 1,646 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| North Tyneside 009D | 1,703 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| North Tyneside 009E | 1,510 | 101.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
Your MP
- Sir Alan CampbellLabourMP for Tynemouth
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 Whitley Bay2
Middle areas in Whitley Bay5
Towns near Whitley Bay6
Whitley Bay in brief
Whitley Bay is a town in North Tyneside, North East.
About 37,217 people lived in Whitley Bay in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £336,998 in 2025 across 688 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 65.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whitley Bay was £336,998 in 2025.
Whitley Bay had 36,876 usual residents at the census.
About 70% of people in Whitley Bay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitley Bay, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.