Rugeley
TownTown in Cannock Chase, West Midlands.
Rugeley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rugeley 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 79% of people in Rugeley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rugeley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rugeley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rugeley at a rate of 84.5 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, 194 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rugeley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,059), other crime (400) and anti-social behaviour (245).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rugeley was 81.9 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 Rugeley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rugeley has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Rugeley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannock Chase 001A | 1,201 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 001B | 1,203 | 24.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Cannock Chase 001C | 1,372 | 109.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.1% |
| Cannock Chase 001D | 1,489 | 65.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| Cannock Chase 001E | 2,141 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Cannock Chase 002A | 1,329 | 96.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 002B | 2,284 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Cannock Chase 002C | 1,530 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Cannock Chase 002D | 1,385 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 002E | 1,660 | 356.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| Cannock Chase 003A | 2,003 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Cannock Chase 003B | 1,772 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Cannock Chase 003C | 1,506 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Cannock Chase 003D | 1,740 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Cannock Chase 003E | 2,266 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Lichfield 001E | 1,774 | 50.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.3% |
Your MP
- Josh NewburyLabourMP for Cannock Chase
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 Rugeley1
Middle areas in Rugeley3
Towns near Rugeley6
Rugeley in brief
Rugeley is a town in Cannock Chase, West Midlands.
About 26,613 people lived in Rugeley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £218,140 in 2025 across 393 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 84.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rugeley was £218,140 in 2025.
Rugeley had 26,149 usual residents at the census.
About 79% of people in Rugeley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rugeley, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.