Cradley Heath
TownTown in Sandwell, West Midlands.
Cradley Heath is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cradley Heath 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 100% of people in Cradley Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cradley Heath compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cradley Heath safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cradley Heath at a rate of 93.0 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, 156 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cradley Heath.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (919), other crime (297) and criminal damage and arson (157).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cradley Heath was 97.4 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 Cradley Heath, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cradley Heath has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cradley Heath
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 035A | 1,422 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 035B | 2,185 | 108.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Sandwell 035C | 2,329 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Sandwell 035D | 1,643 | 134.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 035E | 1,430 | 21.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 035F | 1,875 | 88.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.3% |
| Sandwell 038A | 2,094 | 173.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.1% |
| Sandwell 038B | 1,851 | 89.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Sandwell 038C | 1,850 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 038D | 1,582 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.5% |
Your MP
- Alex BallingerLabourMP for Halesowen
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 Cradley Heath1
Middle areas in Cradley Heath2
Towns near Cradley Heath6
Cradley Heath in brief
Cradley Heath is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands.
About 19,643 people lived in Cradley Heath in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £216,000 in 2025 across 202 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cradley Heath was £216,000 in 2025.
Cradley Heath had 18,819 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Cradley Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cradley Heath, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.