Burntwood
TownTown in Lichfield, West Midlands.
Burntwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Burntwood 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 0% of people in Burntwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Burntwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Burntwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Burntwood at a rate of 65.2 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, 169 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Burntwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (773), anti-social behaviour (297) and other crime (279).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Burntwood was 64.9 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 Burntwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Burntwood has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Burntwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lichfield 003A | 1,418 | 39.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Lichfield 003B | 1,624 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.3% |
| Lichfield 003C | 2,264 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.1% |
| Lichfield 006A | 1,619 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.9% |
| Lichfield 006B | 1,881 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Lichfield 006C | 1,555 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Lichfield 006D | 1,604 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Lichfield 006F | 1,270 | 119.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Lichfield 006G | 1,845 | 188.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.5% |
| Lichfield 009A | 2,035 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Lichfield 009B | 1,361 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.1% |
| Lichfield 009C | 1,515 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Lichfield 009D | 1,416 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Lichfield 009F | 1,729 | 22.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Lichfield 010A | 1,929 | 112.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Lichfield 010B | 1,210 | 94.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Lichfield 010C | 1,315 | 66.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.5% |
| Lichfield 010D | 1,274 | 42.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Dave RobertsonLabourMP for Lichfield
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 Burntwood1
Middle areas in Burntwood4
Towns near Burntwood6
Burntwood in brief
Burntwood is a town in Lichfield, West Midlands.
About 28,701 people lived in Burntwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £250,000 in 2025 across 431 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 65.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Burntwood was £250,000 in 2025.
Burntwood had 27,891 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Burntwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Burntwood, 98.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.