Crap Towns / Stockton-on-Tees / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Stockton-on-Tees?
In January 2026, 3.1% of premises in Stockton-on-Tees couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 6.2 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 450 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 94.1% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 450 | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 1,260 | 3.1% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 38,273 | 94.1% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 3.2 km | 5.2 |
| Egglescliffe | 5.9 km | 3.5 |
| Billingham | 4.6 km | 3.4 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | – | 3.1 |
| Middlesbrough | 7.7 km | 1.5 |
| Darlington | 15.6 km | 1.0 |
| Eston | 11.2 km | 0.9 |
| Ingleby Barwick | 6.3 km | 0.9 |
| Yarm | 8.2 km | 0.7 |
| Hartlepool | 14.3 km | 0.7 |
| Redcar | 16.5 km | 0.7 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |