Halesowen
TownTown in Dudley, West Midlands.
Halesowen is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Halesowen 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 Halesowen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Halesowen compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Halesowen safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Halesowen at a rate of 59.5 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, 285 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Halesowen.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,574), other crime (578) and vehicle crime (351).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Halesowen was 63.3 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 Halesowen, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Halesowen has no single figure. Of its 37 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Halesowen
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley 026A | 1,546 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 026B | 1,589 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 026C | 1,718 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 026D | 1,640 | 79.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 026E | 2,402 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 030A | 1,573 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 030B | 1,517 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 030C | 1,373 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 82.8% |
| Dudley 030D | 1,761 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.3% |
| Dudley 032C | 1,531 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Dudley 032D | 1,439 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.9% |
| Dudley 033A | 1,695 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 033B | 1,585 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 033C | 1,640 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Dudley 033D | 1,848 | 57.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| Dudley 033E | 1,951 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.3% |
| Dudley 033F | 1,495 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Dudley 034A | 1,580 | 193.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.9% |
| Dudley 034B | 1,649 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Dudley 034C | 1,386 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| Dudley 034D | 1,519 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.7% |
| Dudley 034E | 1,683 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 036A | 1,512 | 64.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Dudley 036B | 1,755 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 036C | 1,589 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Dudley 036D | 1,259 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.6% |
| Dudley 039A | 1,865 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 039B | 1,849 | 207.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Dudley 039C | 1,532 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 039D | 1,457 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Dudley 039E | 1,443 | 102.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.0% |
| Dudley 039F | 1,469 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Dudley 043A | 1,871 | 23.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Dudley 043B | 1,360 | 19.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.2% |
| Dudley 043C | 1,803 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 043D | 1,482 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 043E | 1,511 | 28.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
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 Halesowen2
Middle areas in Halesowen8
Towns near Halesowen6
Halesowen in brief
Halesowen is a town in Dudley, West Midlands.
About 61,195 people lived in Halesowen in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £259,575 in 2025 across 832 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Halesowen was £259,575 in 2025.
Halesowen had 60,103 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Halesowen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Halesowen, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.