Biddulph
TownTown in Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands.
Biddulph is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Biddulph 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 32% of people in Biddulph live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Biddulph compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Biddulph safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Biddulph at a rate of 75.3 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, 106 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Biddulph.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (523), anti-social behaviour (297) and other crime (202).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Biddulph was 76.2 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 Biddulph, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Biddulph has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 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 Biddulph
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staffordshire Moorlands 002B | 1,772 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 71.1% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 002C | 2,061 | 32.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 003A | 1,541 | 114.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 003B | 1,773 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 003C | 1,322 | 88.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 003D | 1,422 | 72.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 003E | 1,933 | 209.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.6% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 004A | 1,553 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.8% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 004B | 1,590 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.8% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 004C | 1,611 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.2% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 004D | 1,485 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.4% |
Your MP
- Dame Karen BradleyConservativeMP for Staffordshire Moorlands
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 Biddulph1
Middle areas in Biddulph2
Towns near Biddulph6
Biddulph in brief
Biddulph is a town in Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands.
About 17,657 people lived in Biddulph in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £203,250 in 2025 across 298 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Biddulph was £203,250 in 2025.
Biddulph had 17,490 usual residents at the census.
About 32% of people in Biddulph live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Biddulph, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.