Bilston
TownTown in Wolverhampton and Walsall, West Midlands.
Bilston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bilston 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 46% of people in Bilston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bilston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bilston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bilston at a rate of 120.0 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, 444 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bilston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,861), other crime (722) and shoplifting (629).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bilston was 124.1 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 Bilston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bilston has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bilston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall 038D | 1,668 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.2% |
| Walsall 038E | 1,953 | 111.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wolverhampton 022B | 1,658 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wolverhampton 023A | 1,634 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Wolverhampton 023B | 1,757 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.2% |
| Wolverhampton 023C | 1,357 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Wolverhampton 027A | 2,213 | 336.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.6% |
| Wolverhampton 027B | 1,818 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Wolverhampton 027C | 1,894 | 73.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Wolverhampton 027D | 1,868 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.3% |
| Wolverhampton 029B | 2,676 | 137.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Wolverhampton 029C | 2,033 | 127.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Wolverhampton 029E | 2,645 | 93.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Wolverhampton 033A | 2,432 | 146.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Wolverhampton 033B | 2,160 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wolverhampton 033C | 2,141 | 169.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.3% |
| Wolverhampton 033D | 1,702 | 97.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Pat McFaddenLabourMP for Wolverhampton South East
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Bilston sits in2
Postcode districts covering Bilston3
Middle areas in Bilston4
Towns near Bilston6
Bilston in brief
Bilston is a town in Wolverhampton and Walsall, West Midlands.
About 37,932 people lived in Bilston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,000 in 2025 across 257 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bilston was £205,000 in 2025.
Bilston had 34,631 usual residents at the census.
About 46% of people in Bilston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bilston, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.