Lichfield
TownTown in Lichfield, West Midlands.
Lichfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lichfield 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 0% of people in Lichfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lichfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lichfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lichfield at a rate of 91.8 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, 275 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lichfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,178), anti-social behaviour (541) and other crime (537).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lichfield was 79.0 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 Lichfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lichfield has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lichfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lichfield 004A | 1,982 | 107.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.7% |
| Lichfield 004B | 1,662 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Lichfield 004C | 1,601 | 113.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Lichfield 004E | 1,652 | 474.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 69.9% |
| Lichfield 004F | 1,792 | 208.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.1% |
| Lichfield 004G | 2,037 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Lichfield 005A | 1,512 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Lichfield 005B | 1,695 | 90.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.7% |
| Lichfield 005C | 1,424 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Lichfield 005D | 1,606 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Lichfield 005E | 1,560 | 21.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Lichfield 005F | 1,782 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
| Lichfield 005G | 1,874 | 72.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.9% |
| Lichfield 007A | 1,756 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| Lichfield 007B | 1,572 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.4% |
| Lichfield 007C | 2,164 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.0% |
| Lichfield 007D | 2,769 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| Lichfield 007E | 2,142 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.3% |
Your MP
- Dave RobertsonLabourMP for Lichfield
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 Lichfield2
Middle areas in Lichfield3
Towns near Lichfield6
Lichfield in brief
Lichfield is a town in Lichfield, West Midlands.
About 34,472 people lived in Lichfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £328,750 in 2025 across 672 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lichfield was £328,750 in 2025.
Lichfield had 32,586 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Lichfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lichfield, 91.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.