Blythe
WardThe west of the East Staffordshire. About 2,824 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 60 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 26% of people in Blythe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blythe compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blythe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blythe at a rate of 23.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 77.5 per 1,000 people across East Staffordshire.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 5 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blythe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (35), other crime (16) and anti-social behaviour (8).
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 East Staffordshire
These figures are published for the whole of East Staffordshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of East Staffordshire and not Blythe alone. See East Staffordshire
Blythe in brief
Blythe had 2,722 usual residents at the census.
About 26% of people in Blythe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blythe, 60.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Blythe, 0.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.