Knowle and Dorridge
TownTown in Solihull, West Midlands.
Knowle and Dorridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Knowle and Dorridge 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 18% of people in Knowle and Dorridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Knowle and Dorridge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Knowle and Dorridge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Knowle and Dorridge at a rate of 37.9 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, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Knowle and Dorridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (283), other crime (131) and vehicle crime (86).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Knowle and Dorridge was 41.0 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 Knowle and Dorridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Knowle and Dorridge has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Knowle and Dorridge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solihull 026A | 1,635 | 108.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.0% |
| Solihull 026B | 1,296 | 12.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Solihull 026C | 1,784 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.3% |
| Solihull 026D | 1,658 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Solihull 026E | 1,825 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.6% |
| Solihull 026F | 1,531 | 17.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Solihull 028A | 1,593 | 9.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Solihull 028B | 1,643 | 49.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Solihull 028C | 1,553 | 28.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Solihull 028D | 1,859 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Solihull 028E | 1,484 | 16.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Solihull 028F | 1,714 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.8% |
Your MP
- Saqib BhattiConservativeMP for Meriden and Solihull 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 Knowle and Dorridge1
Middle areas in Knowle and Dorridge2
Towns near Knowle and Dorridge6
Knowle and Dorridge in brief
Knowle and Dorridge is a town in Solihull, West Midlands.
About 19,344 people lived in Knowle and Dorridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £560,000 in 2025 across 291 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 37.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Knowle and Dorridge was £560,000 in 2025.
Knowle and Dorridge had 19,323 usual residents at the census.
About 18% of people in Knowle and Dorridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Knowle and Dorridge, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.