Standing view · population · Hartlepool
rising, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
Live births in Hartlepool rose from 880 in 2024 to 984 in 2025. The general fertility rate rose from 48.5 to 52.6 live births per thousand women of childbearing age over the same years, and the total fertility rate from 1.45 to 1.58. The crude birth rate was 9.9 per thousand residents in 2025, against a population of 99,656. Four measures moved the same way across two consecutive years, which is an unusual direction among the districts published here and a consistent one.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Hartlepool. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Live births | 2024 | rising |
| Live births | 2025 | rising |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| General fertility rate (GFR) | 2024 | — |
| Total fertility rate (TFR) | 2024 | — |
| Population | 2025 | — |
| Crude birth rate | 2025 | — |
| General fertility rate (GFR) | 2025 | — |
| Total fertility rate (TFR) | 2025 | — |