Neighbourhoods in Northumberland
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.
38 neighbourhoods · 200 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
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 Northumberland
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Northumberland. 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 Northumberland median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Northumberland.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Northumberland
Crime in Northumberland runs at 35% below the national average. Below median (#170 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 65.4, 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 Northumberland
100% of schools serving Northumberland 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 Northumberland
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 Northumberland
Northumberland has 0.35 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 Northumberland
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 Northumberland?
- The median monthly rent across Northumberland is £664, 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 Northumberland?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Northumberland by estimated median rent is Ashington Hirst at approximately £490/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Northumberland?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Northumberland is Northumberland 041 at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Northumberland a safe area?
- Northumberland has an average safety score of 63/100 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 Northumberland?
- The most common council tax band in Northumberland is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,383. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Northumberland.
- What is the average salary in Northumberland?
- The median annual resident salary in Northumberland is £30,456, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Northumberland, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Northumberland?
- The average property price in Northumberland is approximately £206,199 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 Northumberland?
- Gross rental yield in Northumberland is approximately 3.7% — 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 Northumberland?
- 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 3.1 years in Northumberland. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Northumberland?
- 100% of premises in Northumberland 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 Northumberland?
- 3.0% of 16-64 residents in Northumberland 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 Northumberland?
- Northumberland contains 38 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 200 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 Northumberland
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.
- Northumberland 023C
- Northumberland 023A
- Northumberland 010D
- Northumberland 010C
- Northumberland 041B
- Northumberland 025C
- Northumberland 024A
- Northumberland 010E
- Northumberland 020A
- Northumberland 005B
- Northumberland 020B
- Northumberland 038D
- Northumberland 023B
- Northumberland 010A
- Northumberland 031D
- Northumberland 038B
- Northumberland 022D
- Northumberland 032A
- Northumberland 042J
- Northumberland 035E
- Northumberland 015D
- Northumberland 015A
- Northumberland 035C
- Northumberland 022C
- Northumberland 020F
- Northumberland 013F
- Northumberland 034E
- Northumberland 023F
- Northumberland 035A
- Northumberland 008E
- Northumberland 007D
- Northumberland 042E
- Northumberland 020D
- Northumberland 017C
- Northumberland 019A
- Northumberland 022A
- Northumberland 029B
- Northumberland 017E
- Northumberland 021F
- Northumberland 021E
- Northumberland 013A
- Northumberland 026B
- Northumberland 042H
- Northumberland 024B
- Northumberland 009A
- Northumberland 024E
- Northumberland 025G
- Northumberland 004A
- Northumberland 041A
- Northumberland 020E
- Northumberland 023E
- Northumberland 026C
- Northumberland 022B
- Northumberland 029E
- Northumberland 036D
- Northumberland 003C
- Northumberland 005D
- Northumberland 040C
- Northumberland 008F
- Northumberland 029C
- Northumberland 011B
- Northumberland 013B
- Northumberland 013E
- Northumberland 033C
- Northumberland 025B
- Northumberland 041H
- Northumberland 036A
- Northumberland 018C
- Northumberland 043A
- Northumberland 005A
- Northumberland 038G
- Northumberland 016B
- Northumberland 023G
- Northumberland 016F
- Northumberland 043C
- Northumberland 038A
- Northumberland 009B
- Northumberland 025E
- Northumberland 020C
- Northumberland 008B
Showing 80 of 200 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.