# Bridgnorth Town in Shropshire, West Midlands. Bridgnorth is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands. Median sale price £267,250 in 2025. Recorded crime 75.0 per 1,000 people. About 12,057 people. Town. Code E63002814. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Shropshire](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire) Bridgnorth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bridgnorth 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £267,250** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Bridgnorth was £267,250 in 2025. Joint 530th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgnorth#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 12,172** (2021). Bridgnorth had 12,172 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 365th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgnorth#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 95%** (2022). About 95% of people in Bridgnorth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgnorth#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 86.3%** (January 2026). In Bridgnorth, 86.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgnorth#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63002814) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 95% of people in Bridgnorth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63002814) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 202 homes were sold in Bridgnorth in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63002814) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Bridgnorth. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63002814) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Bridgnorth had 12,172 usual residents at the census. ## How Bridgnorth compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Bridgnorth | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £267,250 | 28th most expensive | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2025 | | Population | 12,172 | 23rd least populated | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 95% | 19th most people in radon Affected Areas | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 86.3% | joint 4th lowest | 88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026 | ## Is Bridgnorth safe? What police records show In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bridgnorth at a rate of 75.0 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, 81 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bridgnorth. In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (347), other crime (156) and anti-social behaviour (123). A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bridgnorth was 69.8 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 Bridgnorth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood - Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bridgnorth has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank: - Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Bridgnorth | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Shropshire 031A](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028830) | 1,414 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.2% | | [Shropshire 031B](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028831) | 1,519 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.9% | | [Shropshire 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028836) | 1,401 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.2% | | [Shropshire 031D](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028837) | 1,324 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% | | [Shropshire 033A](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028832) | 1,592 | 120.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 74.9% | | [Shropshire 033B](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028833) | 1,412 | 185.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.1% | | [Shropshire 033C](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028834) | 1,627 | 64.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 76.7% | | [Shropshire 033D](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/neighbourhood/e01028835) | 1,563 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.5% | ## Your MP - [South Shropshire](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/south-shropshire): Stuart Anderson (Conservative), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Shropshire](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire) ## Postcode districts covering Bridgnorth [WV15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wv15), [WV16](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wv16) ## Middle areas in Bridgnorth [Bridgnorth East](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/bridgnorth-east), [Bridgnorth West](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire/bridgnorth-west) ## Towns near Bridgnorth [Telford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/telford), [Wombourne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wombourne), [Shifnal](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shifnal), [Kingswinford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kingswinford), [Perton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/perton), [Wolverhampton](https://openindex.co.uk/wolverhampton) ## Bridgnorth in brief Bridgnorth is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands. About 12,057 people lived in Bridgnorth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £267,250 in 2025 across 202 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk). The median price paid for a home in Bridgnorth was £267,250 in 2025. Bridgnorth had 12,172 usual residents at the census. About 95% of people in Bridgnorth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. In Bridgnorth, 86.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63002814 - Constituency: [South Shropshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/south-shropshire) - Council: [Shropshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/shropshire) - Region: [West Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/west-midlands) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 3.68 km² - People, mid-2024: 12,057* - Neighbourhoods: 8 - Output areas: 42 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Telford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/telford), [Wombourne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wombourne), [Shifnal](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shifnal), [Kingswinford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kingswinford), [Perton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/perton), [Wolverhampton](https://openindex.co.uk/wolverhampton) ## Latest updates for Bridgnorth - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63002814 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgnorth, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgnorth#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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