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Dudley (North Tyneside)

Dudley (North Tyneside) is a village in Northumberland, England, with a population of around 1,500. It has around 2 GP surgeries and clinics, around 4 restaurants and cafés, 26 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Cramlington, 2.6 km away. There were around 80 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 Dudley (North Tyneside) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Northumberland area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 320,569 residents at roughly 64 people per km².

Council
Northumberland
County
Northumberland
Constituency
Blyth Valley
Police force
Northumbria
54/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 125th of 294 English council areas — better than 57% of them.

Low crime49
Home affordability87
Affordable rents96
Good schools59
Life expectancy35
Low deprivation43
Employment60
Low council tax13

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

9°CClear

  • Today: 11° / 9° · 64% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:25

9h 11m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 5.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 3.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

73 reported · August 2026▼ 26% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences26
  • Anti-social behaviour17
  • Public order17
  • Criminal damage & arson3

Neighbourhood team: Cramlington · Northumbria

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social behaviour on motorbikes
  • Tackle anti-social behaviour at the Brockwell Centre, Cramlington. Local residents and shopkeepers have made multiple reports to police r…

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

Road safety

345 reported road collisions (2025)

132 killed or seriously injured · 459 casualties · 10.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

170 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 156 rated 4–5 ★ (140 top)
  • 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Cramlington (2.6 km)
  • 26 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Cramlington (2.7 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£213,113 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Northumberland · to 2026-08

Detached£371,788
Semi-detached£206,101
Terraced£172,838
Flat£106,485

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£695 average monthly rent▲ 6.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £495
  • 2 bed £630
  • 3 bed £766

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

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

Property sales

4,778 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · BP (9.9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · BP (9.9 km)

17 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

55 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 75 kW
  • Nearest: Northumberland Business Park West (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Sports pitches20
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

320,569 residents in Northumberland · 64/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK13,999
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,562
  • Net moves+4,437

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 128 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

11% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,597 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,731
B £2,020
C £2,308
D £2,597
E £3,174
F £3,751
G £4,328
H £5,194

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

Schools

175 schools · 43,186 pupils

127 primary · 15 secondary · 33 other

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

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

Secondary schools:

  • Ashington AcademyGood
  • Bedlington AcademyGood
  • Coquet Community SchoolGood
  • Ponteland High SchoolGood
  • Queen Elizabeth High SchoolGood
  • St Benet Biscop Catholic AcademyGood
  • The Blyth AcademyGood
  • Berwick AcademyRequires improvement
  • Haydon Bridge High SchoolRequires improvement
  • NCEA Duke's Secondary SchoolRequires improvement
  • The Duchess's Community High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Cramlington Learning Village
  • Prudhoe Community High School
  • Seaton Valley High School
  • The King Edward VI School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Northumberland

Care & health services

269 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes94
  • GP practices43
  • Dentists54
  • Homecare agencies43
  • Hospitals & hospices13

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

Source: Care Quality Commission · Northumberland

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

482 applications decided

89.2% granted · 430 granted, 52 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Emma Foody

Labour (Co-op)

Cramlington and Killingworth

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative (minority)

  • Lab 10
  • Con 28
  • LD 3
  • Grn 2
  • Ref 18
  • Oth 8

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools4
  • GPs & clinics3
  • Pharmacies1
  • Parks & greens5
  • Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

13,790 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£733 median full-time weekly pay

2.9% 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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

59% low-carbon electricity

Imports 41% · Nuclear 35% · Wind 24%

1 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in NE23

  • Npc Cramlington
  • Village Medical Group
  • Netherfield House

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Cramlington and Killingworth:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Dudley, Tyne and Wear · 0.6 km

    Dudley is a large village in North Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England and situated at Northumberland's border. A former mining village and formerly part of Northumberland, it was the site of Annitsford…

  • Annitsford · 0.8 km

    Annitsford is a semi-rural village located in North Tyneside, on the border between Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. The main conurbation of the village falls under the jurisdiction of the Borough of North Tyneside i…

  • Annitsford railway station · 1.1 km

    The first station in the area opened in 1860 as Dudley and served Dudley Colliery and the village of Dudley in North Tyneside, England. It was located on the East Coast Main Line to the north of Newcastle upon Tyne. I…

  • Stonelaw Middle School · 1.2 km

    Stonelaw County Middle School was a middle school in Cramlington, Northumberland, England, normally referred to as Stonelaw.

  • Cramlington Learning Village · 1.3 km

    Cramlington Learning Village, formerly Cramlington Community High School, is a large high school with academy status in Cramlington, Northumberland, England; it is a comprehensive school of around 2100 students.

  • Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital · 1.6 km

    The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital known locally as Cramlington Hospital is a hospital specialising in emergency care for sick and injured patients, opened in 2015 in Cramlington, Northumberland, Engla…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Dudley (North Tyneside)?
Dudley (North Tyneside) is a town in Northumberland, England, in the Northumberland local authority.
How deprived is Dudley (North Tyneside)?
The Northumberland local authority, which includes Dudley (North Tyneside), is around the average in England on the IoD2025.