There was a market square, shopping centre, boarding school, three pubs, six places of worship, a police station and public bathhouse.

The modern centre is on Birchington Avenue, the move in part due to the A66, which built through the area in the 1980s, and ends at a roundabout in the east of Grangetown.

It was historically part of the ancient Langbaurgh Wapentake in the Cleveland area of Yorkshire in its North Riding.

[19][20] Grangetown is part of Redcar constituency,[21] and is represented by Anna Turley, of the Labour and Co-operative parties.

In the 2023 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council:[22] In 1914, the community was around 5,500 people.