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Ryton

Ryton is a town in Tyne & Wear, England, with a population of around 10,000. It has around 1 GP surgery, 2 pharmacies, around 15 restaurants and cafés, 31 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Wylam, 2.7 km away. The average sold house price is around £192,628. There were around 91 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly anti-social behaviour. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ryton area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Gateshead area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 196,151 residents at roughly 1,378 people per km².

Council
Gateshead
County
Tyne & Wear
Constituency
Blaydon
Police force
Northumbria
44/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 191st of 294 English council areas — better than 35% of them.

Low crime31
Home affordability95
Affordable rents78
Good schools89
Life expectancy9
Low deprivation19
Employment29
Low council tax2

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

8°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 10° / 7° · 73% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:18Sunset 16:22

9h 3m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

Crime data is temporarily unavailable.

Road safety

251 reported road collisions (2025)

53 killed or seriously injured · 325 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

175 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 156 rated 4–5 ★ (126 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Wylam (3.3 km)
  • 39 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Wylam (3.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£156,036 average▲ 4.4% YoY

Across Gateshead · to 2026-08

Detached£287,336
Semi-detached£181,868
Terraced£152,031
Flat£97,856

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£804 average monthly rent▲ 5.8% YoY

  • 1 bed £590
  • 2 bed £723
  • 3 bed £844

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

Affordability

4.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.9 times median annual pay (4.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,429 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 (11.2 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · BP (11.2 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

46 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 19 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Clara Vale Village Hall (1.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres7
  • Gyms3
  • Sports pitches21
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

196,151 residents in Gateshead · 1,378/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,488
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,712
  • Net moves+776

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

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 58 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

19% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,716 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (59% of 95,470)

A £1,811
B £2,112
C £2,414
D £2,716
E £3,319
F £3,923
G £4,526
H £5,432

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

Schools

93 schools · 30,087 pupils

66 primary · 9 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 31 of 32 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (97%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Cardinal Hume Catholic School, GatesheadOutstanding
  • Kingsmeadow Community SchoolGood
  • Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademyGood
  • St Thomas More Catholic School, BlaydonGood
  • Grace CollegeRequires improvement
  • Heworth Grange School
  • Thorp Academy
  • Whickham School
  • XP Gateshead

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Gateshead

Care & health services

191 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes50
  • GP practices36
  • Dentists40
  • Homecare agencies44
  • Hospitals & hospices2

CQC ratings: 97% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Gateshead

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Ryton CA)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 35 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

140 applications decided

87.1% granted · 122 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Liz Twist

Labour

Blaydon and Consett

Recent votes:

  • AyeRailways Bill: Carry-over extension (Motion)
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: Amendment 8
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: Amendment 6
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Reform UK majority

  • Lab 12
  • LD 12
  • Grn 3
  • Ref 38
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens10
  • Restaurants & cafés13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,160 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

4 jobs advertised · £34,956 avg

e.g. Nursery Practitioner, Amazon Flex Delivery Driver, General Practitioner (GP)

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£675 median full-time weekly pay

4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£19,745 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 97,223 certificates

10% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

62% low-carbon electricity

Imports 38% · Nuclear 33% · Wind 29%

1 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 81.5 yrs women · 77.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.4 women · 58 men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Health services

1 GP surgery · 3 pharmacies in NE40

  • Crawcrook Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Blaydon and Consett:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Ryton, Tyne and Wear · 0.1 km

    Ryton is a village in Tyne and Wear, England. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, historically part of County Durham. In 2011, the population of the Ryton, Crookhill and Stella ward was 8,146. It is 6 mile…

  • Holy Cross Church, Ryton · 0.5 km

    Holy Cross Church is a Church of England parish church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. The church is a Grade I listed building.

  • Ryton railway station · 0.6 km

    Ryton railway station was a station in Ryton, Tyne and Wear, England. The station was near the Newcastle-to-Carlisle railway, which roughly follows the course of the river along its south bank. With the opening of tha…

  • Crookhill · 0.8 km

    Crookhill is an area of Ryton in Tyne and Wear, England. The original terraced housing was built mostly as accommodation for NCB workers, and lies to the east of the centre of Ryton, approx 6 miles west of Newcastle u…

  • Battle of Newburn · 1.3 km

    The Battle of Newburn, 28 August 1640, was the decisive action of the Second Bishops' War. Fought near Newburn in northern England, a Covenanter army under Alexander Leslie defeated a smaller English force led by Visc…

  • Newcastle University Boat Club · 1.4 km

    Newcastle University Boat Club (NUBC) is the rowing club of Newcastle University, UK. Established in March 1911 as the boat club for Armstrong College, it celebrated its centenary in 2011, when was also appointed High…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Ryton?
Ryton is a town in Tyne & Wear, England, in the Gateshead local authority.
How deprived is Ryton?
The Gateshead local authority, which includes Ryton, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.