Cradley North & Wollescote
WardSouth Dudley. About 13,806 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Cradley North & Wollescote live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cradley North & Wollescote compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cradley North & Wollescote safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cradley North & Wollescote at a rate of 56.1 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, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cradley North & Wollescote.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (329), other crime (106) and criminal damage and arson (69).
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 Cradley North & Wollescote alone. See Dudley
Cradley North & Wollescote in brief
Cradley North & Wollescote had 13,336 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Cradley North & Wollescote live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cradley North & Wollescote, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Cradley North & Wollescote, 4.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.