Rowley Regis
TownTown in Sandwell, West Midlands.
Rowley Regis is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rowley Regis 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 80% of people in Rowley Regis live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rowley Regis compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rowley Regis safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rowley Regis at a rate of 70.9 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, 238 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rowley Regis.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,343), other crime (467) and vehicle crime (260).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rowley Regis was 70.2 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 Rowley Regis, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rowley Regis has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 5 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 Rowley Regis
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 016E | 2,648 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Sandwell 021A | 2,030 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.5% |
| Sandwell 021B | 1,840 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Sandwell 021E | 1,664 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 022A | 1,631 | 119.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 022B | 1,495 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 022D | 1,563 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 022E | 2,315 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 022F | 1,869 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 022G | 1,634 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Sandwell 025A | 2,153 | 73.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Sandwell 025B | 1,401 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 025C | 1,544 | 103.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.7% |
| Sandwell 025D | 1,222 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Sandwell 027A | 1,448 | 177.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Sandwell 027B | 2,370 | 136.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 027C | 1,557 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 027D | 1,870 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Sandwell 029A | 1,849 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Sandwell 029B | 1,424 | 185.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 029C | 1,744 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 029D | 1,700 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Sarah CoombesLabourMP for West Bromwich
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 Rowley Regis2
Middle areas in Rowley Regis5
Towns near Rowley Regis6
Rowley Regis in brief
Rowley Regis is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands.
About 40,047 people lived in Rowley Regis in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 355 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rowley Regis was £220,000 in 2025.
Rowley Regis had 39,052 usual residents at the census.
About 80% of people in Rowley Regis live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rowley Regis, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.