Bewdley
TownTown in Wyre Forest, West Midlands.
Bewdley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bewdley 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 58% of people in Bewdley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bewdley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bewdley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bewdley at a rate of 57.7 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, 46 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bewdley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (244), anti-social behaviour (70) and other crime (64).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bewdley was 57.9 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 Bewdley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bewdley has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bewdley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyre Forest 005A | 1,814 | 41.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 56.6% |
| Wyre Forest 005B | 1,733 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| Wyre Forest 005D | 1,362 | 60.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| Wyre Forest 011A | 1,527 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.9% |
| Wyre Forest 011B | 1,548 | 177.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 41.5% |
| Wyre Forest 011C | 1,458 | 16.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.2% |
Your MP
- Mark GarnierConservativeMP for Wyre Forest
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 Bewdley1
Middle areas in Bewdley2
Towns near Bewdley6
Bewdley in brief
Bewdley is a town in Wyre Forest, West Midlands.
About 8,200 people lived in Bewdley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £287,500 in 2025 across 145 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bewdley was £287,500 in 2025.
Bewdley had 8,285 usual residents at the census.
About 58% of people in Bewdley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bewdley, 87.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.