Bloxwich
TownTown in Walsall, West Midlands.
Bloxwich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bloxwich 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 72% of people in Bloxwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bloxwich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bloxwich safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bloxwich at a rate of 110.5 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, 517 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bloxwich.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,649), other crime (942) and criminal damage and arson (670).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bloxwich was 108.7 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 Bloxwich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bloxwich has no single figure. Of its 30 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 17 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Bloxwich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall 006A | 1,680 | 141.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Walsall 006B | 1,855 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.1% |
| Walsall 006C | 1,635 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 006D | 1,653 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.1% |
| Walsall 008A | 1,949 | 343.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.6% |
| Walsall 008B | 1,513 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.0% |
| Walsall 008C | 1,455 | 130.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 008D | 1,336 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Walsall 009A | 1,478 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Walsall 009B | 1,681 | 81.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.0% |
| Walsall 009C | 1,220 | 74.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 009D | 1,582 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 009E | 1,459 | 132.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Walsall 012A | 1,349 | 152.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Walsall 012B | 1,713 | 167.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.0% |
| Walsall 012C | 1,645 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Walsall 012D | 1,956 | 77.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Walsall 013B | 1,766 | 93.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 013D | 1,923 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.4% |
| Walsall 013F | 1,809 | 122.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.3% |
| Walsall 013G | 1,657 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Walsall 017A | 2,113 | 109.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.6% |
| Walsall 017B | 1,543 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Walsall 017C | 1,505 | 130.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
| Walsall 017D | 1,518 | 106.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.6% |
| Walsall 018B | 2,018 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Walsall 018D | 2,707 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
| Walsall 018F | 2,757 | 118.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| Walsall 021C | 1,580 | 160.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 021D | 1,891 | 80.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Valerie VazLabourMP for Walsall and Bloxwich
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 Bloxwich2
Middle areas in Bloxwich8
Towns near Bloxwich6
Bloxwich in brief
Bloxwich is a town in Walsall, West Midlands.
About 54,404 people lived in Bloxwich in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 473 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bloxwich was £200,000 in 2025.
Bloxwich had 51,891 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in Bloxwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bloxwich, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.