Cannock
TownTown in Cannock Chase, West Midlands.
Cannock is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cannock 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 1% of people in Cannock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cannock compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cannock safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cannock at a rate of 87.6 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, 503 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cannock.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,616), other crime (918) and anti-social behaviour (843).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cannock was 83.1 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 Cannock, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cannock has no single figure. Of its 39 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cannock
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannock Chase 004A | 1,900 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 004B | 1,555 | 28.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 004C | 1,370 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.7% |
| Cannock Chase 004D | 1,044 | 130.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 005B | 1,432 | 65.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 005C | 1,445 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Cannock Chase 005D | 1,658 | 296.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.5% |
| Cannock Chase 005E | 1,162 | 56.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 005F | 2,356 | 75.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.0% |
| Cannock Chase 006A | 1,743 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Cannock Chase 007A | 1,472 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 007B | 1,404 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 007C | 1,454 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 007D | 1,673 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Cannock Chase 007E | 1,342 | 134.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 008A | 1,375 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 008B | 1,506 | 91.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 008C | 1,572 | 90.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 008D | 1,284 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Cannock Chase 008E | 1,571 | 62.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Cannock Chase 009A | 1,449 | 17.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 009B | 1,419 | 91.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 009C | 1,666 | 66.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Cannock Chase 009D | 1,695 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Cannock Chase 009E | 2,150 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.5% |
| Cannock Chase 010A | 2,386 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.8% |
| Cannock Chase 010B | 1,748 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Cannock Chase 010C | 1,370 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Cannock Chase 010D | 1,629 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
| Cannock Chase 011A | 1,363 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.0% |
| Cannock Chase 011B | 1,649 | 108.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Cannock Chase 011C | 1,530 | 180.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.6% |
| Cannock Chase 011D | 1,717 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| Cannock Chase 011E | 2,213 | 162.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.8% |
| Cannock Chase 012A | 2,393 | 145.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.1% |
| Cannock Chase 012B | 1,520 | 357.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.6% |
| Cannock Chase 012C | 1,399 | 135.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| Cannock Chase 012D | 1,645 | 104.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| Cannock Chase 012E | 1,343 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Josh NewburyLabourMP for Cannock Chase
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 Cannock2
Middle areas in Cannock8
Towns near Cannock6
Cannock in brief
Cannock is a town in Cannock Chase, West Midlands.
About 65,298 people lived in Cannock in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £228,000 in 2025 across 958 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cannock was £228,000 in 2025.
Cannock had 63,057 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Cannock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cannock, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.