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Redcar

Redcar is a town in North Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 37,073. It has 1 pharmacy, 4 supermarkets, and around 37 restaurants and cafés, along with 12 bus stops and Redcar Central railway station 1.2 km away. The average sold house price is around £173,551, and there were around 215 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Redcar area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Redcar and Cleveland area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 136,531 residents at roughly 557 people per km².

Council
Redcar and Cleveland
County
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Redcar
Police force
Cleveland
40/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 227th of 294 English council areas — better than 23% of them.

Low crime12
Home affordability96
Affordable rents99
Good schools43
Life expectancy24
Low deprivation19
Employment36
Low council tax22

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

19°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 21° / 13° · 11% rain
  • Tomorrow: 18° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:26

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Crime

240 reported · July 2026 11% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences65
  • Anti-social behaviour47
  • Criminal damage & arson23
  • Public order23

Neighbourhood team: Coatham · Cleveland

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social behaviour
  • Drug dealing & misuse

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

113 reported road collisions (2024)

31 killed or seriously injured · 152 casualties · 8.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

308 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 280 rated 4–5 ★ (265 top)
  • 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Redcar Central (0.7 km)
  • 20 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Redcar Central (0.6 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£153,205 average 8.1% YoY

Across Redcar and Cleveland · to 2026-06

Detached£258,045
Semi-detached£158,793
Terraced£120,233
Flat£80,948

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£643 average monthly rent 1.2% YoY

  • 1 bed £456
  • 2 bed £608
  • 3 bed £723

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

4.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.7 times median annual pay (4.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 153.9p · BP (10.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · Morrisons (11.5 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

20 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: Graffenburg Street Car Park, Redcar 1 (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Gyms1
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches17
  • Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

136,531 residents in Redcar and Cleveland · 557/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 62 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

24% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,544 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (40% of 66,640)

A £1,696
B £1,979
C £2,262
D £2,544
E £3,110
F £3,675
G £4,241
H £5,089

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

64 schools · 20,535 pupils

44 primary · 10 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 27 of 31 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

58inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Freebrough AcademyOutstanding
  • Huntcliff SchoolGood
  • Laurence Jackson SchoolGood
  • Outwood Academy RedcarGood
  • Rye Hills AcademyGood
  • Sacred Heart Catholic SecondaryGood
  • St Peter's Catholic CollegeGood
  • Nunthorpe School & Sixth FormRequires improvement
  • Outwood Academy NormanbyInadequate
  • Outwood Academy Bydales

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Redcar and Cleveland

Care & health services

121 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes43
  • GP practices18
  • Dentists25
  • Homecare agencies20
  • Hospitals & hospices4

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Redcar and Cleveland

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 11 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

100 applications decided

95% granted · 95 granted, 5 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Anna Turley

Labour (Co-op)

Redcar

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots
  • AyeDraft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour (minority)

  • Lab 20
  • Con 13
  • LD 10
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 15

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools10
  • GPs & clinics3
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets4
  • Parks & greens11
  • Restaurants & cafés43

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

3,895 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

232 jobs advertised · £41,840 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Complex care assistant, Groundworker

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£703 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£19,739 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,766 certificates

10.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

58% low-carbon electricity

Imports 43% · Wind 27% · Nuclear 12% · Biomass 10%

13 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 81.8 yrs women · 79.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 54.3 women · 54.3 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.5
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Redcar:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • St Peter's Church, Redcar · 0.0 km

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican parish church in Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was designed in 1829 by Ignatius Bonomi from Durham and is dedicated to St. Peter. It is near the seafront a…

  • Zetland (lifeboat) · 0.2 km

    The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. During its time on service, it is estimated to have saved over 500 lives.

  • Redcar Lifeboat Station · 0.3 km

    Redcar Lifeboat Station is located on The Esplanade at Redcar, a town on the northern coast of Yorkshire, historically North Yorkshire, now Redcar and Cleveland.

  • Redcar Pier · 0.3 km

    Redcar Pier was a Victorian pleasure and landing pier constructed on The Esplanade in the seaside town of Redcar on the north east coast of Yorkshire, England.

  • Redcar · 0.6 km

    Redcar is a seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast in the Redcar and Cleveland district. It is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, and is located 7 miles (11 km) east of Middlesbrough.

  • Redcar Central railway station · 0.7 km

    Redcar Central is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington. The station, situated 7 miles 64 chains (12.6 km) east of Middlesbrough, serves the seaside…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Redcar?
Redcar is a town in North Yorkshire, England, in the Redcar and Cleveland local authority.
What is the population of Redcar?
Redcar has an approximate settlement population of 37,073.
How deprived is Redcar?
The Redcar and Cleveland local authority, which includes Redcar, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.