Sedgley
TownTown in Dudley, West Midlands.
Sedgley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sedgley 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 100% of people in Sedgley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sedgley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sedgley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sedgley at a rate of 68.3 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, 179 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sedgley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (955), other crime (363) and vehicle crime (215).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sedgley was 71.3 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 Sedgley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sedgley has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 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 Sedgley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley 002A | 1,536 | 141.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.8% |
| Dudley 002B | 1,565 | 80.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 002C | 1,583 | 59.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Dudley 002D | 1,380 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 003A | 1,447 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 003B | 1,408 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Dudley 003C | 1,447 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 003D | 1,389 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Dudley 003E | 1,210 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 005E | 1,577 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 007A | 1,979 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 007B | 1,456 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 007C | 1,442 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 007D | 1,602 | 132.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Dudley 008A | 1,412 | 166.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Dudley 008B | 1,871 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 008C | 1,481 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 008D | 1,487 | 44.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Dudley 008E | 1,381 | 20.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 008F | 1,396 | 26.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.8% |
| Dudley 009A | 2,154 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Sonia KumarLabourMP for Dudley
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 Sedgley2
Middle areas in Sedgley4
Towns near Sedgley6
Sedgley in brief
Sedgley is a town in Dudley, West Midlands.
About 32,368 people lived in Sedgley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £247,000 in 2025 across 412 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sedgley was £247,000 in 2025.
Sedgley had 31,976 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Sedgley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sedgley, 99.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.