# Penkridge

Town in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.

Penkridge is a town in South Staffordshire, West Midlands. Median sale price £286,250 in 2025. Recorded crime 64.8 per 1,000 people. About 8,992 people.

Town. Code E63002425. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [South Staffordshire](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £286,250** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Penkridge was £286,250 in 2025. 458th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 8,364** (2021). Penkridge had 8,364 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 95th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Penkridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 88.0%** (January 2026). In Penkridge, 88.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63002425) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63002425) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 128 homes were sold in Penkridge in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63002425) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Penkridge.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63002425) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Penkridge had 8,364 usual residents at the census.

## How Penkridge compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Penkridge | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £286,250 | 19th most expensive | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2025 |
| Population | 8,364 | 8th least populated | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 88.0% | joint 9th lowest | 88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Penkridge

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [South Staffordshire 001A](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire/neighbourhood/e01029655) | 1,930 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.0% |
| [South Staffordshire 001C](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire/neighbourhood/e01029657) | 1,680 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| [South Staffordshire 001D](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire/neighbourhood/e01029658) | 2,059 | 155.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.8% |
| [South Staffordshire 001E](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire/neighbourhood/e01029659) | 1,309 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| [South Staffordshire 001F](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire/neighbourhood/e01029660) | 2,164 | 80.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 70.2% |

## Your MP

- [Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stone-great-wyrley-and-penkridge): Sir Gavin Williamson (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[South Staffordshire](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire)

## Postcode districts covering Penkridge

[ST19](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st19)

## Middle areas in Penkridge

[Penkridge & Acton Trussell](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire/penkridge-and-acton-trussell)

## Towns near Penkridge

[Cannock](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cannock), [Stafford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stafford), [Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay](https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-wyrley-and-cheslyn-hay), [Wolverhampton](https://openindex.co.uk/wolverhampton), [Norton Canes](https://openindex.co.uk/town/norton-canes), [Rugeley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rugeley)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63002425
- Constituency: [Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stone-great-wyrley-and-penkridge)
- Council: [South Staffordshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/south-staffordshire)
- Region: [West Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/west-midlands)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.24 km²
- People, mid-2024: 8,992*
- Neighbourhoods: 5
- Output areas: 30

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Cannock](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cannock), [Stafford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stafford), [Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay](https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-wyrley-and-cheslyn-hay), [Wolverhampton](https://openindex.co.uk/wolverhampton), [Norton Canes](https://openindex.co.uk/town/norton-canes), [Rugeley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rugeley)

## Latest updates for Penkridge

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63002425

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge