Darlaston
TownTown in Walsall, West Midlands.
Darlaston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Darlaston 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 49% of people in Darlaston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Darlaston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Darlaston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Darlaston at a rate of 103.0 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, 216 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Darlaston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,106), other crime (393) and vehicle crime (247).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Darlaston 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 Darlaston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Darlaston has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Darlaston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 001B | 1,761 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Walsall 033B | 1,616 | 240.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Walsall 033C | 2,027 | 96.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.3% |
| Walsall 033D | 2,033 | 121.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.2% |
| Walsall 036A | 1,796 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Walsall 036B | 2,218 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.4% |
| Walsall 036C | 2,773 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Walsall 036D | 1,706 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 038A | 2,168 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Walsall 038B | 1,796 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Walsall 038C | 1,527 | 66.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Pat McFaddenLabourMP for Wolverhampton South East
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 Darlaston1
Middle areas in Darlaston3
Towns near Darlaston6
Darlaston in brief
Darlaston is a town in Walsall, West Midlands.
About 22,640 people lived in Darlaston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 129 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Darlaston was £185,000 in 2025.
Darlaston had 21,541 usual residents at the census.
About 49% of people in Darlaston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Darlaston, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.