Neighbourhoods in Hartlepool
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
11 neighbourhoods · 57 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Foggy Furze | £447 | +4.7% | 85 | 15 |
| Jesmond | £447 | +4.7% | 85 | 7 |
| Old Town & Grange | £488 | +4.7% | 85 | 1 |
| Headland & West View | £499 | +4.7% | 85 | 9 |
| Rossmere & Mill | £520 | +4.7% | 97 | 46 |
| Hartlepool 015 | £527 | +4.7% | 85 | 47 |
| Rift House & Summerhill | £582 | +4.7% | 91 | 30 |
| Owton Manor | £588 | +4.7% | 85 | 15 |
| Seaton Carew | £621 | +4.7% | 99 | 79 |
| Clavering | £642 | +4.7% | 98 | 77 |
| The Fens, Elwick & Hart | £731 | +4.7% | 84 | 89 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Hartlepool
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Hartlepool. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Hartlepool median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Hartlepool.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Hartlepool
Crime in Hartlepool runs at in line with the national average. Bottom 10% (#306 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 112.5, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Hartlepool
100% of schools serving Hartlepool are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Hartlepool
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Hartlepool
Hartlepool has 0.34 jobs per resident locally. Bottom quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Hartlepool
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Hartlepool?
- The median monthly rent across Hartlepool is £570, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Hartlepool?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Hartlepool by estimated median rent is Foggy Furze at approximately £447/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Hartlepool?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Hartlepool is Seaton Carew at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Hartlepool a safe area?
- Hartlepool has an average safety score of 43/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Hartlepool?
- The most common council tax band in Hartlepool is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,128. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Hartlepool.
- What is the average salary in Hartlepool?
- The median annual resident salary in Hartlepool is £28,830, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Hartlepool, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Hartlepool?
- The average property price in Hartlepool is approximately £130,176 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Hartlepool?
- Gross rental yield in Hartlepool is approximately 4.6% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Hartlepool?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.3 years in Hartlepool. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Hartlepool?
- 100% of premises in Hartlepool are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Hartlepool?
- 4.6% of 16-64 residents in Hartlepool are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Hartlepool?
- Hartlepool contains 11 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 57 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Hartlepool
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Hartlepool 015C
- Hartlepool 003I
- Hartlepool 007D
- Hartlepool 001A
- Hartlepool 012C
- Hartlepool 008A
- Hartlepool 008C
- Hartlepool 015A
- Hartlepool 012E
- Hartlepool 012D
- Hartlepool 009C
- Hartlepool 015D
- Hartlepool 007A
- Hartlepool 007C
- Hartlepool 003H
- Hartlepool 015E
- Hartlepool 001G
- Hartlepool 002B
- Hartlepool 001F
- Hartlepool 009A
- Hartlepool 008D
- Hartlepool 007B
- Hartlepool 002D
- Hartlepool 002E
- Hartlepool 015B
- Hartlepool 003C
- Hartlepool 002C
- Hartlepool 014A
- Hartlepool 007E
- Hartlepool 010B
- Hartlepool 014C
- Hartlepool 003A
- Hartlepool 010C
- Hartlepool 011D
- Hartlepool 014D
- Hartlepool 002A
- Hartlepool 010A
- Hartlepool 015G
- Hartlepool 012A
- Hartlepool 008B
- Hartlepool 009B
- Hartlepool 011B
- Hartlepool 010D
- Hartlepool 012B
- Hartlepool 011C
- Hartlepool 014G
- Hartlepool 003G
- Hartlepool 001D
- Hartlepool 001B
- Hartlepool 015F
- Hartlepool 002F
- Hartlepool 011A
- Hartlepool 001C
- Hartlepool 014E
- Hartlepool 014B
- Hartlepool 014F
- Hartlepool 009D