Oldbury
TownTown in Sandwell, West Midlands.
Oldbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Oldbury 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 89% of people in Oldbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oldbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oldbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oldbury at a rate of 98.8 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, 439 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oldbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,086), other crime (738) and shoplifting (462).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Oldbury was 103.6 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 Oldbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Oldbury has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Oldbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 021C | 2,441 | 198.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.7% |
| Sandwell 022C | 1,990 | 85.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Sandwell 024A | 1,976 | 289.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 79.4% |
| Sandwell 024B | 1,999 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.6% |
| Sandwell 024C | 2,257 | 90.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 024D | 2,026 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 030A | 1,823 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 030B | 2,197 | 111.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.4% |
| Sandwell 030C | 1,529 | 136.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| Sandwell 030D | 1,643 | 87.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 030E | 1,733 | 74.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Sandwell 032A | 1,632 | 135.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Sandwell 032B | 1,705 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 032C | 1,538 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Sandwell 032D | 1,578 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Sandwell 032E | 1,753 | 120.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 036B | 1,585 | 60.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Sandwell 036C | 1,846 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 036D | 1,619 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.3% |
| Sandwell 037A | 1,934 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 037B | 1,575 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 037C | 1,829 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.2% |
| Sandwell 037D | 1,736 | 96.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 037E | 1,586 | 119.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
Your MP
- Gurinder Singh JosanLabourMP for Smethwick
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 Oldbury2
Middle areas in Oldbury5
Towns near Oldbury6
Oldbury in brief
Oldbury is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands.
About 47,129 people lived in Oldbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £227,000 in 2025 across 438 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Oldbury was £227,000 in 2025.
Oldbury had 45,188 usual residents at the census.
About 89% of people in Oldbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oldbury, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.