Dudley
TownTown in Dudley, West Midlands.
Dudley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dudley 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 99% of people in Dudley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dudley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dudley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dudley at a rate of 119.3 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, 748 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dudley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,646), other crime (1,392) and shoplifting (722).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dudley was 120.0 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 Dudley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dudley has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 14 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dudley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley 006B | 1,538 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 006C | 2,166 | 352.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 79.3% |
| Dudley 006F | 1,476 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 006H | 1,712 | 134.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 006I | 1,733 | 65.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Dudley 009B | 1,563 | 52.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 009C | 1,480 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 009D | 1,537 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 009E | 1,431 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.6% |
| Dudley 010A | 1,866 | 80.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 010B | 1,628 | 294.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.9% |
| Dudley 010C | 1,910 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 010D | 1,713 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 011A | 1,606 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 011B | 2,383 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.3% |
| Dudley 011D | 1,615 | 129.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 011E | 1,472 | 222.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 75.3% |
| Dudley 011F | 1,295 | 314.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 83.4% |
| Dudley 013B | 1,821 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 013C | 1,548 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 013D | 1,430 | 382.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.7% |
| Dudley 013E | 1,956 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 015A | 1,840 | 122.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 015B | 1,767 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.3% |
| Dudley 015C | 2,856 | 213.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.7% |
| Dudley 015D | 1,847 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 017E | 1,583 | 161.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Dudley 018A | 1,510 | 114.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.4% |
| Dudley 018B | 1,534 | 132.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.8% |
| Dudley 018C | 1,488 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Dudley 018D | 1,988 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 018E | 1,551 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Dudley 020A | 1,351 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 020B | 1,538 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Dudley 020C | 1,609 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Dudley 020D | 1,641 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.4% |
| Dudley 020E | 1,659 | 80.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 025E | 2,240 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
Your MP
- Sonia KumarLabourMP for Dudley
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Dudley3
Middle areas in Dudley8
Towns near Dudley6
Dudley in brief
Dudley is a town in Dudley, West Midlands.
About 67,548 people lived in Dudley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £199,500 in 2025 across 492 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 119.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dudley was £199,500 in 2025.
Dudley had 64,277 usual residents at the census.
About 99% of people in Dudley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dudley, 96.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.