Wordsley North
WardWest Dudley. About 12,873 people in 3.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 57% of people in Wordsley North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wordsley North compares
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Is Wordsley North safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wordsley North at a rate of 43.7 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, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wordsley North.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (237), shoplifting (109) and other crime (82).
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 Wordsley North alone. See Dudley
Wordsley North in brief
Wordsley North had 12,430 usual residents at the census.
About 57% of people in Wordsley North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wordsley North, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wordsley North, 2.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.