Brierley Hill
TownTown in Dudley, West Midlands.
Brierley Hill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brierley Hill 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 65% of people in Brierley Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brierley Hill compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brierley Hill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brierley Hill at a rate of 109.1 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, 320 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brierley Hill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,385), shoplifting (712) and other crime (538).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brierley Hill was 112.3 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 Brierley Hill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brierley Hill has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brierley Hill
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley 017D | 1,716 | 107.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 022A | 2,038 | 479.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.4% |
| Dudley 022B | 2,150 | 252.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.3% |
| Dudley 022C | 1,980 | 119.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Dudley 022D | 1,541 | 99.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 023B | 2,175 | 85.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Dudley 023D | 1,816 | 88.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Dudley 025A | 1,531 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 025B | 1,582 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Dudley 025C | 1,665 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 025D | 1,720 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Dudley 027A | 1,393 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 027B | 1,293 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Dudley 027C | 1,324 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 027D | 1,224 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 027E | 1,549 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 028A | 1,293 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Dudley 028B | 1,182 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| Dudley 028C | 1,442 | 28.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Cat EcclesLabourMP for Stourbridge
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 Brierley Hill1
Middle areas in Brierley Hill4
Towns near Brierley Hill6
Brierley Hill in brief
Brierley Hill is a town in Dudley, West Midlands.
About 33,221 people lived in Brierley Hill 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 339 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 109.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brierley Hill was £200,000 in 2025.
Brierley Hill had 32,311 usual residents at the census.
About 65% of people in Brierley Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brierley Hill, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.