United Kingdom · North East · Local Authority
Middlesbrough
Unitary authority · North East, England · population ~141k · 58 state-funded schools
Affordable to buy into, difficult to live in. Middlesbrough offers a house price to earnings ratio of 4.4x, one of the lowest in the North East, yet this reflects a local economy where weekly earnings of £671 sit below the regional median. While rent remains manageable at 24.4% of gross pay, the trade-off is significant: both the deprivation score and the crime rate of 146.5 per 1,000 residents are the highest in the region. The one clear outlier is the education system, where 96.7% of pupils attend Good or Outstanding schools. This location suits those who prioritise immediate housing affordability and school quality over the significant social and economic challenges captured by the wider data.
Written from the indicators on this page, 2026-10 data.
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How Middlesbrough ranks across 361 UK Local Authorities
Pay
£34,892/yr
Very low
Worse than 92% of UK LAs
House price
£153,500
Most affordable
Better than 96% of UK LAs
Rent
£709/mo
Most affordable
Better than 89% of UK LAs
Council tax
£2,549/yr
Most expensive
Worse than 80% of UK LAs
Crime
146.5/1k
Highest
Worse than 99% of UK LAs
Deprivation
40.5
Most deprived
Worse than 99% of UK LAs
Schools
96.6%
Strong
Better than 78% of UK LAs
Colour shows quintile position against 361 UK Local Authorities. Green is the best position for someone moving here; red is the worst. Direction is set per indicator — higher pay, lower rent, less crime, less deprivation are all green.
Schools
67 state-funded schools · Ofsted Sep 2026
56 of 58 (96.6%) rated Good or Outstanding under Ofsted's legacy framework. 9 schools are on the post-2024 report-card framework and don't roll up into the legacy total. How we count →
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58 schools · pins coloured by Ofsted grade
Grades, phase and pupil numbers for all 58 schools, sortable and filterable.
Schools in Middlesbrough →Places with similar signatures
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What we don't know yet
Commute times · GP appointment availability · broadband speeds · air quality at LA level · green-space proximity · public transport coverage. These matter for a relocation decision. We'll add them when the source data is reliable nationally and consistent across LA boundaries.