Smethwick
TownTown in Sandwell, West Midlands.
Smethwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Smethwick 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 45% of people in Smethwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Smethwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Smethwick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Smethwick at a rate of 100.8 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, 523 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Smethwick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,812), other crime (1,072) and vehicle crime (469).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Smethwick was 99.6 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 Smethwick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Smethwick has no single figure. Of its 31 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 16 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Smethwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 023A | 2,943 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Sandwell 023B | 2,150 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Sandwell 023C | 1,869 | 106.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 023D | 1,719 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.5% |
| Sandwell 023E | 1,739 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 023F | 1,481 | 103.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.8% |
| Sandwell 023G | 2,270 | 122.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.1% |
| Sandwell 028A | 2,077 | 124.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.1% |
| Sandwell 028B | 2,018 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Sandwell 028C | 1,887 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 028D | 2,240 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Sandwell 028E | 2,116 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.3% |
| Sandwell 031A | 1,835 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 031B | 1,629 | 79.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 031C | 1,846 | 85.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 031D | 1,423 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Sandwell 031E | 1,678 | 109.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Sandwell 034B | 1,366 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 034C | 1,415 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 034D | 1,455 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 034E | 1,408 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Sandwell 034G | 1,730 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 036A | 1,520 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Sandwell 040A | 2,279 | 127.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Sandwell 040B | 1,477 | 511.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.9% |
| Sandwell 040C | 1,670 | 98.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Sandwell 040D | 2,170 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Sandwell 041A | 2,055 | 105.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.6% |
| Sandwell 041B | 2,041 | 248.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.9% |
| Sandwell 041C | 1,690 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.9% |
| Sandwell 041D | 2,290 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.8% |
Your MP
- Gurinder Singh JosanLabourMP for Smethwick
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 Smethwick2
Middle areas in Smethwick6
Towns near Smethwick6
Smethwick in brief
Smethwick is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands.
About 58,800 people lived in Smethwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £216,000 in 2025 across 339 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Smethwick was £216,000 in 2025.
Smethwick had 56,343 usual residents at the census.
About 45% of people in Smethwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Smethwick, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.