Stone
TownTown in Stafford, West Midlands.
Stone is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stone 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 5% of people in Stone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stone compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stone safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stone at a rate of 70.5 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, 121 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (546), other crime (250) and anti-social behaviour (219).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stone was 70.0 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 Stone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stone has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Stone
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford 003A | 1,542 | 74.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Stafford 003B | 2,413 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.9% |
| Stafford 003C | 1,721 | 213.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| Stafford 003D | 1,486 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% |
| Stafford 003E | 1,987 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Stafford 003F | 1,930 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Stafford 004B | 1,503 | 9.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Stafford 004C | 1,565 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Stafford 004D | 1,799 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.5% |
| Stafford 004E | 1,332 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Sir Gavin WilliamsonConservativeMP for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
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 Stone1
Middle areas in Stone2
Towns near Stone6
Stone in brief
Stone is a town in Stafford, West Midlands.
About 18,192 people lived in Stone 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 304 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stone was £240,000 in 2025.
Stone had 17,282 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in Stone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stone, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.