Brownhills
TownTown in Walsall, West Midlands.
Brownhills is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brownhills 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 12% of people in Brownhills live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brownhills compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brownhills safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brownhills at a rate of 110.9 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, 212 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brownhills.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (959), other crime (351) and shoplifting (279).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brownhills was 106.0 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 Brownhills, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brownhills has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brownhills
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall 001A | 1,448 | 129.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 001B | 1,587 | 112.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.0% |
| Walsall 001C | 2,258 | 206.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.2% |
| Walsall 002A | 1,536 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.8% |
| Walsall 002B | 1,686 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.6% |
| Walsall 002C | 1,385 | 116.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 002D | 1,810 | 101.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Walsall 004A | 1,759 | 255.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.1% |
| Walsall 004B | 1,399 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| Walsall 004C | 1,776 | 96.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Walsall 004D | 1,468 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 007A | 1,543 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.2% |
| Walsall 007B | 1,217 | 33.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 007D | 1,504 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
Your MP
- Wendy MortonConservativeMP for Aldridge-Brownhills
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 Brownhills2
Middle areas in Brownhills4
Towns near Brownhills6
Brownhills in brief
Brownhills is a town in Walsall, West Midlands.
About 21,291 people lived in Brownhills in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 253 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brownhills was £220,000 in 2025.
Brownhills had 21,238 usual residents at the census.
About 12% of people in Brownhills live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brownhills, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.