Stafford
TownTown in Stafford, West Midlands.
Stafford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stafford 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 23% of people in Stafford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stafford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stafford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stafford at a rate of 107.5 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, 795 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stafford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,286), other crime (1,625) and anti-social behaviour (1,277).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stafford was 90.4 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 Stafford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stafford has no single figure. Of its 44 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Stafford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford 006A | 1,465 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.5% |
| Stafford 006B | 1,895 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Stafford 006D | 1,627 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 007A | 1,554 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Stafford 007B | 1,528 | 89.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Stafford 007C | 1,618 | 65.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.1% |
| Stafford 007D | 2,453 | 141.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Stafford 007E | 1,230 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 009A | 1,411 | 154.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Stafford 009B | 1,466 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 009C | 1,666 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Stafford 009D | 2,710 | 174.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.4% |
| Stafford 010A | 1,647 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.4% |
| Stafford 010B | 1,353 | 249.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.6% |
| Stafford 010C | 2,325 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Stafford 010D | 1,968 | 120.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.5% |
| Stafford 010F | 1,118 | 1,035.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 58.8% |
| Stafford 010G | 1,032 | 649.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 66.6% |
| Stafford 011A | 1,329 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Stafford 011B | 1,210 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 011C | 1,473 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Stafford 011D | 1,661 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Stafford 011F | 1,533 | 57.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 38.0% |
| Stafford 011G | 1,744 | 72.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 48.0% |
| Stafford 012A | 1,469 | 54.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Stafford 012B | 1,705 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.3% |
| Stafford 012C | 1,738 | 115.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
| Stafford 012D | 1,328 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.7% |
| Stafford 013A | 1,447 | 106.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Stafford 013B | 1,593 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Stafford 013C | 1,757 | 100.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 013D | 1,489 | 167.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.8% |
| Stafford 013E | 1,447 | 70.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 014A | 1,450 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 014B | 1,517 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Stafford 014E | 1,466 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Stafford 014F | 1,578 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| Stafford 014G | 1,715 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.6% |
| Stafford 014H | 1,780 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Stafford 014I | 2,614 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.4% |
| Stafford 016A | 1,710 | 67.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| Stafford 016B | 1,552 | 152.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.3% |
| Stafford 016C | 2,221 | 161.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Stafford 016D | 2,202 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
Your MP
- Leigh InghamLabourMP for Stafford
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 Stafford3
Middle areas in Stafford9
Towns near Stafford6
Stafford in brief
Stafford is a town in Stafford, West Midlands.
About 74,432 people lived in Stafford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £240,000 in 2025 across 1,190 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 107.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stafford was £240,000 in 2025.
Stafford had 71,695 usual residents at the census.
About 23% of people in Stafford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stafford, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.