Economy
- Tourism
Tourists and visitors are attracted the resort's four miles of spotless sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. Every November on a Saturday closest to Bonfire Night there is a fireworks display and carnival attracting thousands of visitors from across the region.
- Industry
At the end of Zinc Works Road there is a quarry at North Gare at one time owned by Tarmac, used for the extraction of sand and gravel from the beach of North Gare Sands by the lagoon at Teesmouth. Also at the end of Zinc Works Road is Frutarom, formerly Oxford Chemicals, manufacturers of "High Impact Aroma Chemicals" for the food and other industries.
To the south on Seaton Channel is Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station. Further up Seaton Channel at Graythorp basin, Able UK have their ship dismantling facility and on Tees Road is the Greatham Works of Huntsman Tioxide manufacturers of titanium dioxide pigments.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)