Backworth

18°COvercast

• Today: 19° / 13° · 15% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:30

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

50US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

76 reported · July 2026▼ 4% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences18
• Shoplifting15
• Anti-social behaviour14
• Other theft7

Neighbourhood team: Whitley Bay · Northumbria

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

409 reported road collisions (2024)

118 killed or seriously injured · 550 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

183 food businesses within 2 miles

• 170 rated 4–5 ★ (149 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Northumberland Park (Metro) (1.1 km)
• 20 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£213,452 average▲ 12.6% YoY

Across Northumberland · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£691 average monthly rent▲ 6.7% YoY

• 1 bed £492
• 2 bed £626
• 3 bed £762

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

5.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.7 times median annual pay (5.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · BP (8.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Asda (8.8 km)

33 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

87 charging locations within ~8 km

• 17 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Northumberland Retail Park (0.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Gyms1
• Sports pitches9
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

320,569 residents in Northumberland · 64/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 131 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,597 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (44% of 162,470)

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

175 schools · 43,186 pupils

127 primary · 15 secondary · 33 other

Ofsted: 75 of 83 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (90%)

165inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Northumberland

271 CQC-registered services

• Care homes95
• GP practices43
• Dentists55
• Homecare agencies44
• Hospitals & hospices13

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Northumberland

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

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

489 applications decided

88.1% granted · 431 granted, 58 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Emma Foody

Labour (Co-op)

Cramlington and Killingworth

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 8
• Con 28
• LD 3
• Grn 2
• Ref 18
• Oth 8

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets3
• Restaurants & cafés12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

13,580 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

9 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Primary school Tutor - Part Time, Online Psychology Tutor - Part Time, Become a Primary school Tutor in Backworth – Flexible & Remote

Source: Adzuna

£733 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,195 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 165,775 certificates

10.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

43% low-carbon electricity

Imports 57% · Solar 15% · Nuclear 15% · Biomass 12%

17 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.3 yrs women · 79.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.9 women · 59.8 men

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

7 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in NE27

• Northumberland Park Medical Group
• 1 To 1 Centre
• Northumberland Community Service

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Cramlington and Killingworth:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership399 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth384 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office379 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s365 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test323 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Backworth · 0.3 km

  Backworth is a village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) west of Whitley Bay on the north east coast. It lies 5 miles (8 km) northeast of N…

• Moorside, North Tyneside · 0.3 km

  Moorside is a social housing estate near Backworth and Shiremoor. It was built in 1938 to accommodate the miners of the nearby Backworth pit and consists of a large housing estate, a few shops and a veterinary practice.

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  Holywell railway station · 0.4 km

  Holywell was a railway station that served the village of Backworth and nearby hamlet of Holywell in what is now the Borough of North Tyneside, North East England. Located on what is now known as the Northumberland Li…

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  Backworth railway station · 1.1 km

  Backworth was a railway station on the Blyth and Tyne Railway, serving the village of Backworth, in the borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It was opened, as Hotspur, on 27 June 1864, along with the Bly…

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  Northumberland Park station (Tyne and Wear) · 1.1 km

  Northumberland Park is a multimodal transport hub with both a Tyne and Wear Metro station and a National Rail station, serving the village of Backworth and suburbs of Northumberland Park and West Allotment, as well as…

• Northumberland Park, Tyne and Wear · 1.1 km

  Northumberland Park is a place in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside. Although built as an individual settlement along the A19 road, it is often referred to as being part of Shiremoor. There are two main housi…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)