Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
Median sale price over the last five years
£145,000
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Town guide · Town · England
Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in South Shields. This local area guide brings together 650 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
1,964.881 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£149,303 below Average across published towns and cities in England
25 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
5.2 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
7.9 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£146,468 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£107,078 below Average across published towns and cities in England
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Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
£145,000
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
£86,750
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
£174,517
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Home energy certificates · Higher than most
97.2%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
67.0%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Higher than most
3.1%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
£105 a year
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
2,533
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
68.5%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
107
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
191
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
60
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
264
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
76
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
103
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
35
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
637
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
16
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
82
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
713
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
People & households · Lower than most
11.4%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
46.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
18.3%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
32.0%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
37.4%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
20.0%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
Income, work & local economy · Higher than most
5.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Claimant Count via Nomis · 2026-07
Local energy · Higher than most
1
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Air, land & environment · Higher than most
144
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows · 2024
Air, land & environment · Higher than most
10 m
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Terrain 50 · 2026-07
Nature & green space · Higher than most
42
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Open Greenspace · 2026-04
Nature & green space · Lower than most
185.3 ha
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
National Forest Inventory / Forestry Commission open data · 2024 (imagery to summer 2024)
Schools & childcare · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Compare school performance data · 2024/25
Health & care · Lower than most
4,364
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
95.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
82.4%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
91.5%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
77.1%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
29
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) · 2026-10-02
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
36
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
23
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
308
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Street Manager roadworks open data · 2026-07
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
294
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
200
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
18
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
9
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
14
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
11
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
70
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
42
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
439
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
99
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official South Shields settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for South Shields; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
650 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.