Kidderminster
TownTown in Wyre Forest, West Midlands.
Kidderminster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kidderminster 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 84% of people in Kidderminster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kidderminster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kidderminster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kidderminster at a rate of 100.2 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, 598 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kidderminster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,111), other crime (958) and anti-social behaviour (796).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kidderminster was 109.8 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 Kidderminster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kidderminster has no single figure. Of its 39 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Kidderminster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyre Forest 002A | 1,211 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wyre Forest 002B | 1,627 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.9% |
| Wyre Forest 002C | 1,317 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Wyre Forest 002D | 1,251 | 208.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.9% |
| Wyre Forest 002E | 1,595 | 80.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Wyre Forest 003A | 1,509 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Wyre Forest 003B | 1,518 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| Wyre Forest 003C | 1,413 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Wyre Forest 003D | 1,482 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Wyre Forest 003E | 1,146 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Wyre Forest 004A | 2,325 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wyre Forest 004B | 1,476 | 150.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Wyre Forest 004C | 1,846 | 108.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Wyre Forest 004E | 1,085 | 604.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 36.9% |
| Wyre Forest 004F | 1,649 | 168.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 70.6% |
| Wyre Forest 006A | 1,499 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Wyre Forest 006B | 1,561 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Wyre Forest 006C | 1,820 | 75.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wyre Forest 006D | 1,800 | 170.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.9% |
| Wyre Forest 007A | 1,599 | 79.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Wyre Forest 007B | 1,480 | 94.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wyre Forest 007C | 1,524 | 82.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wyre Forest 007D | 1,350 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.5% |
| Wyre Forest 007E | 1,172 | 69.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.3% |
| Wyre Forest 007F | 1,099 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wyre Forest 008A | 1,802 | 297.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Wyre Forest 008B | 1,665 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.1% |
| Wyre Forest 008C | 1,395 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Wyre Forest 008D | 1,178 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Wyre Forest 008E | 1,524 | 58.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Wyre Forest 009A | 1,695 | 103.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.3% |
| Wyre Forest 009C | 1,631 | 170.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wyre Forest 009D | 1,344 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
| Wyre Forest 009E | 1,430 | 130.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
| Wyre Forest 010A | 1,300 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.1% |
| Wyre Forest 010B | 1,269 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.0% |
| Wyre Forest 010C | 1,231 | 84.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.1% |
| Wyre Forest 010D | 1,156 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.5% |
| Wyre Forest 010E | 1,438 | 107.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
Your MP
- Mark GarnierConservativeMP for Wyre Forest
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 Kidderminster2
Middle areas in Kidderminster8
Towns near Kidderminster6
Kidderminster in brief
Kidderminster is a town in Wyre Forest, West Midlands.
About 58,425 people lived in Kidderminster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £240,000 in 2025 across 840 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kidderminster was £240,000 in 2025.
Kidderminster had 57,567 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Kidderminster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kidderminster, 93.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.