Bedlington

14°COvercast

• Today: 15° / 13° · 32% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:31

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

46US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

81 reported · July 2026▼ 42% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences29
• Anti-social behaviour24
• Criminal damage & arson8
• Burglary4

7 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Bedlington · 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)

169 food businesses within 2 miles

• 148 rated 4–5 ★ (138 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Bedlington (1.9 km)
• 27 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: 156.9p · BP (11.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Asda (2.5 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

62 charging locations within ~8 km

• 25 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Rear Front Street Car Park (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Sports pitches20
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds8

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

• In a conservation area (Bedlington)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 22 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

Ian Lavery

Labour

Blyth and Ashington

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)

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens6
• Restaurants & cafés23

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

13,580 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

64 jobs advertised · £31,105 avg

e.g. Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Care Assistant - Care Home, Looking For Part-Time Opportunities? - Deliver with Uber Eats

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

44% low-carbon electricity

Imports 56% · Solar 17% · Nuclear 15% · Biomass 12%

16 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

3 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in NE22

• Bedlingtonshire Med.Group
• The Gables Medical Group
• Bedlington Pharmacy

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Blyth and Ashington:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office456 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s359 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership339 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth302 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases272 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Bedlington Terriers F.C. · 0.4 km

  Bedlington Terriers Football Club was a football club based in Bedlington, Northumberland, England. Established in 1949, the club played at Welfare Park until folding in 2025.

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  Bedlington · 0.7 km

  Bedlington is a town in the civil parish of West Bedlington, in Northumberland, England, with a population of 18,470 measured at the 2011 Census.

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  St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy · 0.8 km

  St. Benet Biscop Catholic Academy is a Roman Catholic high school in Bedlington, Northumberland, England. It is the only Catholic high school in the county.

• Bedlington Ironworks · 1.1 km

  Bedlington Ironworks, in Blyth Dene, Northumberland, England, operated between 1736 and 1867. It is most remembered as the place where wrought iron rails were invented by John Birkinshaw in 1820, which triggered the r…

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  Bebside · 1.2 km

  Bebside is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blyth, in Northumberland, England. It is situated to the west of Blyth. It was formerly a mining village, the mine associated with the village operate…

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  Choppington · 1.7 km

  Choppington is a large village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is situated 5 miles to the south-east of Morpeth, and north of Bedlington. It was at one time part of the three big mid-Northumberland col…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)