Aldridge
TownTown in Walsall, West Midlands.
Aldridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Aldridge add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 27% of people in Aldridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Aldridge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Aldridge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Aldridge at a rate of 61.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 81 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Aldridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (372), other crime (179) and vehicle crime (112).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Aldridge was 70.4 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Aldridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Aldridge has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Aldridge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall 007C | 1,343 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| Walsall 007E | 1,148 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Walsall 015A | 2,338 | 139.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 73.2% |
| Walsall 015B | 1,638 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 015C | 1,487 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Walsall 015D | 1,457 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.3% |
| Walsall 022A | 1,592 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.1% |
| Walsall 022B | 1,571 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.9% |
| Walsall 022C | 1,579 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.5% |
| Walsall 022D | 1,605 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
Your MP
- Wendy MortonConservativeMP for Aldridge-Brownhills
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Aldridge1
Middle areas in Aldridge2
Towns near Aldridge6
Aldridge in brief
Aldridge is a town in Walsall, West Midlands.
About 15,750 people lived in Aldridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £295,000 in 2025 across 268 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Aldridge was £295,000 in 2025.
Aldridge had 15,827 usual residents at the census.
About 27% of people in Aldridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Aldridge, 91.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.