Crap Towns / Billingham / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Billingham?
In January 2026, 3.4% of premises in Billingham couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 6.8 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 258 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 95.4% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 258 | 1.6% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 566 | 3.4% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 15,671 | 95.4% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 5.3 km | 5.2 |
| Egglescliffe | 10.1 km | 3.5 |
| Billingham | – | 3.4 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 4.6 km | 3.1 |
| Middlesbrough | 6.6 km | 1.5 |
| Eston | 8.4 km | 0.9 |
| Guisborough | 15.7 km | 0.9 |
| Ingleby Barwick | 9.6 km | 0.9 |
| Yarm | 12.0 km | 0.7 |
| Hartlepool | 10.2 km | 0.7 |
| Redcar | 12.6 km | 0.7 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |