# Stone Town in Stafford, West Midlands. Stone is a town in Stafford, West Midlands. Median sale price £240,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 70.5 per 1,000 people. About 18,192 people. Town. Code E63002109. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Stafford](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £240,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Stone was £240,000 in 2025. Joint 421st cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/stone#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 17,282** (2021). Stone had 17,282 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 597th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/stone#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 5%** (2022). About 5% of people in Stone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/stone#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.8%** (January 2026). In Stone, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/stone#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63002109) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63002109) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 304 homes were sold in Stone in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63002109) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Stone. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63002109) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Stone had 17,282 usual residents at the census. ## How Stone compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Stone | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £240,000 | joint 37th cheapest | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2025 | | Population | 17,282 | 31st least populated | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 5% | 11th fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.8% | joint 17th highest | 88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Stone | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Stafford 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029740) | 1,542 | 74.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% | | [Stafford 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029744) | 2,413 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.9% | | [Stafford 003C](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029745) | 1,721 | 213.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% | | [Stafford 003D](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029746) | 1,486 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% | | [Stafford 003E](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029753) | 1,987 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% | | [Stafford 003F](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029756) | 1,930 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% | | [Stafford 004B](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029739) | 1,503 | 9.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% | | [Stafford 004C](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029741) | 1,565 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% | | [Stafford 004D](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029754) | 1,799 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.5% | | [Stafford 004E](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/neighbourhood/e01029755) | 1,332 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% | ## Your MP - [Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stone-great-wyrley-and-penkridge): Sir Gavin Williamson (Conservative), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Stafford](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford) ## Postcode districts covering Stone [ST15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st15) ## Middle areas in Stone [Little Stoke & Milwich](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/little-stoke-and-milwich), [Stone Town](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford/stone-town) ## Towns near Stone [Stoke-on-Trent](https://openindex.co.uk/stoke-on-trent), [Stafford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stafford), [Newcastle-under-Lyme](https://openindex.co.uk/town/newcastle-under-lyme), [Cheadle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cheadle-staffordshire-moorlands), [Uttoxeter](https://openindex.co.uk/town/uttoxeter), [Penkridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63002109 - Constituency: [Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stone-great-wyrley-and-penkridge) - Council: [Stafford †](https://openindex.co.uk/stafford) - Region: [West Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/west-midlands) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 5.59 km² - People, mid-2024: 18,192* - Neighbourhoods: 10 - Output areas: 60 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Stoke-on-Trent](https://openindex.co.uk/stoke-on-trent), [Stafford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stafford), [Newcastle-under-Lyme](https://openindex.co.uk/town/newcastle-under-lyme), [Cheadle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cheadle-staffordshire-moorlands), [Uttoxeter](https://openindex.co.uk/town/uttoxeter), [Penkridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/penkridge) ## Latest updates for Stone - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63002109 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/stone, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/stone#f-house-sales-median-price. 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