Wideopen
TownTown in North Tyneside and Newcastle upon Tyne, North East.
Wideopen is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wideopen 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 Wideopen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wideopen compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wideopen safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wideopen at a rate of 48.1 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, 57 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wideopen.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (142), anti-social behaviour (140) and other crime (87).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wideopen was 48.1 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 Wideopen, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wideopen has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wideopen
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle upon Tyne 032B | 1,354 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.5% |
| Newcastle upon Tyne 032C | 1,422 | 57.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.4% |
| North Tyneside 004A | 1,909 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.4% |
| North Tyneside 004B | 1,369 | 38.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.8% |
| North Tyneside 004C | 1,277 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| North Tyneside 004D | 1,816 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.6% |
Your MP
- Emma FoodyLabour (Co-op)MP for Cramlington and Killingworth
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Wideopen sits in2
Postcode districts covering Wideopen1
Middle areas in Wideopen1
Towns near Wideopen6
Wideopen in brief
Wideopen is a town in North Tyneside and Newcastle upon Tyne, North East.
About 10,319 people lived in Wideopen 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 180 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wideopen was £225,000 in 2025.
Wideopen had 9,150 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wideopen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wideopen, 91.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.