Perton
TownTown in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.
Perton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Perton 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 Perton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Perton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Perton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Perton at a rate of 52.9 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, 48 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Perton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (278), other crime (73) and anti-social behaviour (66).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Perton was 40.5 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 Perton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Perton has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Perton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Staffordshire 015A | 1,670 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| South Staffordshire 015B | 1,452 | 168.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| South Staffordshire 015C | 1,916 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 77.7% |
| South Staffordshire 015D | 2,030 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| South Staffordshire 015E | 1,392 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Staffordshire 015F | 1,453 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Mike WoodConservativeMP for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
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 Perton1
Middle areas in Perton1
Towns near Perton6
Perton in brief
Perton is a town in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.
About 9,382 people lived in Perton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £261,000 in 2025 across 144 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 52.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Perton was £261,000 in 2025.
Perton had 9,302 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Perton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Perton, 99.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.