Ludlow
TownTown in Shropshire, West Midlands.
Ludlow is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ludlow 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 Ludlow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ludlow compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ludlow safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ludlow at a rate of 76.4 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, 86 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ludlow.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (266), anti-social behaviour (134) and criminal damage and arson (107).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ludlow was 86.1 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 Ludlow, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ludlow has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ludlow
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire 038A | 1,521 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.3% |
| Shropshire 038B | 1,130 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Shropshire 038D | 1,230 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Shropshire 038E | 1,268 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Shropshire 038F | 1,363 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.9% |
| Shropshire 038G | 1,901 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.4% |
| Shropshire 038H | 1,046 | 149.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.3% |
| Shropshire 038I | 1,255 | 147.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
Your MP
- Stuart AndersonConservativeMP for South Shropshire
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 Ludlow1
Middle areas in Ludlow1
Towns near Ludlow5
Ludlow in brief
Ludlow is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands.
About 10,322 people lived in Ludlow in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £242,000 in 2025 across 163 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ludlow was £242,000 in 2025.
Ludlow had 10,037 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ludlow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ludlow, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.