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Catshill

Town

Town in Bromsgrove, West Midlands.

Catshill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Catshill 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Catshill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£337,500
Joint 308th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
10,173
243rd least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
95.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Catshill compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

CatshillMiddle
Median sale price88 towns, West Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in West Midlands88 areas from £163,000 to £560,000. The middle area is £249,000. Catshill is £337,500.
£337,5007th most expensive
Population88 towns, West Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 7,552 to 1,121,367. The middle area is 26,281. Catshill is 10,173.
10,17316th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares88 towns, West Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 54.5%. Catshill is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 77.4% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.4%. Catshill is 95.5%.
95.5%joint 40th highest

Is Catshill safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Catshill at a rate of 55.1 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, 59 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Catshill.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (243), anti-social behaviour (83) and other crime (83).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Catshill was 59.6 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 Catshill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Catshill has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • 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 Catshill

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Bromsgrove 007A1,74552.9 per 1,000898.8%
Bromsgrove 007B1,44187.5 per 1,000689.0%
Bromsgrove 007C1,39766.8 per 1,000491.7%
Bromsgrove 007D1,37584.9 per 1,000397.1%
Bromsgrove 008B1,45243.1 per 1,0001095.8%
Bromsgrove 008C1,44823.9 per 1,0001095.1%
Bromsgrove 008E1,68733.0 per 1,0001097.3%

Your MP

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 Catshill2

Middle areas in Catshill2

Towns near Catshill6

Catshill in brief

Catshill is a town in Bromsgrove, West Midlands.

About 10,177 people lived in Catshill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £337,500 in 2025 across 169 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 55.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Catshill was £337,500 in 2025.

Catshill had 10,173 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Catshill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Catshill, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.