Yarm
TownTown in Stockton-on-Tees, North East.
Yarm is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Yarm 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 Yarm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Yarm compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Yarm safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Yarm at a rate of 64.6 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, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Yarm.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (213), other crime (117) and shoplifting (115).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Yarm was 66.3 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 Yarm, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Yarm has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Yarm
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton-on-Tees 024B | 1,315 | 13.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.9% |
| Stockton-on-Tees 024C | 1,281 | 219.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 58.4% |
| Stockton-on-Tees 024D | 1,443 | 59.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| Stockton-on-Tees 024E | 1,251 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% |
| Stockton-on-Tees 024F | 1,236 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.8% |
| Stockton-on-Tees 024G | 2,105 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% |
Your MP
- Matt VickersConservativeMP for Stockton West
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 Yarm1
Middle areas in Yarm1
Towns near Yarm6
Yarm in brief
Yarm is a town in Stockton-on-Tees, North East.
About 9,928 people lived in Yarm in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £258,750 in 2025 across 178 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Yarm was £258,750 in 2025.
Yarm had 9,601 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Yarm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Yarm, 88.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.