Oswestry
TownTown in Shropshire, West Midlands.
Oswestry is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Oswestry 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 98% of people in Oswestry live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oswestry compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oswestry safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oswestry at a rate of 82.3 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, 127 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oswestry.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (660), other crime (259) and anti-social behaviour (252).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Oswestry was 83.1 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 Oswestry, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Oswestry has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Oswestry
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire 006C | 1,243 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
| Shropshire 006D | 1,209 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.5% |
| Shropshire 006E | 1,708 | 126.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
| Shropshire 006F | 1,978 | 57.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Shropshire 006G | 1,425 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Shropshire 006H | 2,356 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Shropshire 007A | 1,325 | 301.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 63.1% |
| Shropshire 007B | 1,862 | 77.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.6% |
| Shropshire 007C | 1,509 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.0% |
| Shropshire 007D | 1,472 | 22.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.2% |
| Shropshire 007E | 1,424 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.2% |
Your MP
- Helen MorganLiberal DemocratMP for North 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 Oswestry1
Middle areas in Oswestry2
Towns near Oswestry5
Oswestry in brief
Oswestry is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands.
About 18,166 people lived in Oswestry in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,000 in 2025 across 246 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Oswestry was £205,000 in 2025.
Oswestry had 17,500 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Oswestry live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oswestry, 89.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.