Penkridge
TownTown in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.
Penkridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penkridge 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 Penkridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penkridge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penkridge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penkridge at a rate of 64.8 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, 51 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penkridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (268), other crime (94) and anti-social behaviour (85).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penkridge was 58.8 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 Penkridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penkridge has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Penkridge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Staffordshire 001A | 1,930 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.0% |
| South Staffordshire 001C | 1,680 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| South Staffordshire 001D | 2,059 | 155.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.8% |
| South Staffordshire 001E | 1,309 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| South Staffordshire 001F | 2,164 | 80.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 70.2% |
Your MP
- Sir Gavin WilliamsonConservativeMP for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
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 Penkridge1
Middle areas in Penkridge1
Towns near Penkridge6
Penkridge in brief
Penkridge is a town in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.
About 8,992 people lived in Penkridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £286,250 in 2025 across 128 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penkridge was £286,250 in 2025.
Penkridge had 8,364 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Penkridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penkridge, 88.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.