Castle & Priory
WardNorth Dudley. About 15,979 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 98% of people in Castle & Priory live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Castle & Priory compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Castle & Priory safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Castle & Priory at a rate of 115.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 79.9 per 1,000 people across Dudley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 171 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Castle & Priory.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (745), other crime (338) and vehicle crime (168).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Dudley
These figures are published for the whole of Dudley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Dudley and not Castle & Priory alone. See Dudley
Castle & Priory in brief
Castle & Priory had 15,424 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Castle & Priory live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Castle & Priory, 93.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Castle & Priory, 5.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.