Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It skews older: 23% of residents are 65 or over. 28,846 people live in this large town in Northumberland, North East.
Homes are affordable here, though not without reasons. Buying a home costs less than in most towns: a typical home costs £205,195 and rent runs £695 a month. With a B− overall, Cramlington is better than 55% of UK towns and ranks #7 of 20 in Northumberland. Its lowest grade is for health — life expectancy 79.1 for men, 81.8 for women. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for schools, B− for jobs & income and B for walkability.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy and income, ONS · claimants, DWP · commuting, Census 2021.
Northumbria Police published 34 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published.
The 2 things Cramlington does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Cramlington is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Historic England lists 13 buildings inside Cramlington’s built-up area.
4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cramlington.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Relative to its size, Cramlington keeps 5 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, lower than both Northumberland’s towns (52) and England’s towns (39). 4% of homes date from before 1919.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
64% of pupils at the town’s 9 primary schools met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average). Below are three of its 11 schools, each with why it was picked. GCSE results at the 4 secondary schools within 3 km: 43% of pupils get a strong pass (grade 5+) in English and maths, and the Attainment 8 average is 44.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnside Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 515 | A |
| Cramlington Learning VillageLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,989 | B− |
| Cragside CofE Controlled Primary SchoolTop results in townPrimary | Primary | 336 | A− |
One measure of family life: 16% of residents are under 15. People 65 and over make up 23% of the town, below Northumberland’s towns (25%) but above England’s towns (18%). At 45.8, the median resident of Cramlington sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Cramlington | Northumberland | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.4% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 25% |
| 65+ | 23% | 25% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.4% | 7.1% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 26% | 29% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Northumberland and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
70% of households own their home, above Northumberland’s towns (65%) and England’s towns (61%) alike. The £205,195 median rests on 1,571 standard sales inside the built-up area (September 2023 to August 2026). Social renters account for 17% of households.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £309,995 | 544 |
| Semi-detached | £191,060 | 518 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 404 |
| Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | 105 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
3 GP practices serve the town; 92% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. At the census, a fifth of people here had a disability, between Northumberland’s towns (22%) and England’s towns (17%). 5.9% of residents report bad or very bad health.
| Census 2021 | Cramlington | Northumberland | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 78% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.9% | 6.5% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 20% | 22% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · These shares come straight from the census, without allowing for age, and young towns benefit; the Health Grade instead weighs age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
Town centres with shops, stations and nightlife record more crime per resident: police.uk counts crimes where they happen, not where victims live.
Violence and sexual offences accounted for 39% of recorded crime. Violent crime ran at 31 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Northumberland’s towns (24.8) and England’s towns (22). In the 12 months to August 2026, police logged 1,774 crimes and 755 reports of anti-social behaviour inside Cramlington’s built-up area.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 28% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Households had £51K a year before tax, above Northumberland’s towns (£45K) but below England’s towns (£55K). 81% of commuters took the car to work at the census. Of the commuters living in Cramlington, 28% work in the town itself. For just over a third of commuters, work was under 5 km away.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
18 notable people were born in Cramlington.
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The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cramlington | 28,846 | — | B− | A− | C | C |
| Seghill | 2,799 | 1.9 | C | A− | C− | D |
| Dudley | 4,799 | 2 | C+ | A | C− | D |
| New Hartley | 1,764 | 2.3 | — | B | B− | C |
| Seaton Delaval | 8,012 | 2.5 | B− | A− | C | C− |
| Seaton Burn | 1,354 | 2.6 | — | A | C− | C+ |
| Blyth | 39,731 | 3.2 | C | A | D | D |
| Killingworth | 12,180 | 3.3 | B | A− | C | C |
New Hartley and Seaton Burn have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
About the middle for its size: 51% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people report less crime per resident. Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades C.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £205,195, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £84,000, terraced houses £160,000, semi-detached houses £191,060 and detached houses £309,995.
Large town in Northumberland, England
Cramlington is a built-up area of 28,846 people, in the Northumberland council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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