Crap Towns / Thornaby-on-Tees / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Thornaby-on-Tees?
In January 2026, 5.2% of premises in Thornaby-on-Tees couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 10.4 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 356 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 93.3% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 356 | 2.9% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 627 | 5.2% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 11,266 | 93.3% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Thornaby-on-Tees | – | 5.2 |
| Egglescliffe | 5.3 km | 3.5 |
| Billingham | 5.3 km | 3.4 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 3.2 km | 3.1 |
| Middlesbrough | 5.0 km | 1.5 |
| Eston | 9.0 km | 0.9 |
| Guisborough | 15.3 km | 0.9 |
| Ingleby Barwick | 4.3 km | 0.9 |
| Yarm | 6.8 km | 0.7 |
| Hartlepool | 15.5 km | 0.7 |
| Redcar | 15.1 km | 0.7 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |