# Stourbridge

Town in Dudley, West Midlands.

Stourbridge is a town in Dudley, West Midlands. Median sale price £275,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 70.9 per 1,000 people. About 57,768 people.

Town. Code E63002944. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Dudley](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley)

Stourbridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stourbridge 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: £275,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Stourbridge was £275,000 in 2025. Joint 496th most expensive 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/stourbridge#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 56,961** (2021). Stourbridge had 56,961 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 186th most 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/stourbridge#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 61%** (2022). About 61% of people in Stourbridge 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/stourbridge#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.3%** (January 2026). In Stourbridge, 95.3% 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/stourbridge#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63002944) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 61% of people in Stourbridge 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=E63002944) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 790 homes were sold in Stourbridge in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63002944) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Stourbridge.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63002944) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Stourbridge had 56,961 usual residents at the census.

## How Stourbridge compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Stourbridge | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £275,000 | joint 25th most expensive | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2025 |
| Population | 56,961 | 24th most populated | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 61% | 40th most people in radon Affected Areas | 88 towns, West Midlands · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.3% | joint 42nd lowest | 88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026 |

## Is Stourbridge safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stourbridge at a rate of 70.9 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, 364 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stourbridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,727), other crime (719) and shoplifting (571).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stourbridge was 78.2 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 Stourbridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stourbridge has no single figure. Of its 37 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Stourbridge

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Dudley 023A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009731) | 1,595 | 59.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| [Dudley 028D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009730) | 1,462 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| [Dudley 029A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009903) | 1,400 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| [Dudley 029B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009904) | 1,363 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.9% |
| [Dudley 029C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009909) | 1,422 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 029D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009910) | 1,547 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 031A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009721) | 2,384 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.9% |
| [Dudley 031B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009725) | 1,510 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009726) | 1,265 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 031D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009834) | 1,655 | 170.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| [Dudley 032A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009833) | 1,567 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.6% |
| [Dudley 032B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009835) | 1,724 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| [Dudley 035A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009856) | 2,018 | 255.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.1% |
| [Dudley 035B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009905) | 1,426 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| [Dudley 035C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009906) | 1,696 | 141.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.5% |
| [Dudley 035D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009907) | 1,457 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.4% |
| [Dudley 035E](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009908) | 1,571 | 35.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.4% |
| [Dudley 037A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009831) | 1,446 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| [Dudley 037B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009836) | 1,926 | 216.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.5% |
| [Dudley 037C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009837) | 1,602 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| [Dudley 037D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009838) | 1,694 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| [Dudley 038A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009847) | 1,477 | 20.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 038B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009848) | 1,358 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 038C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009849) | 1,590 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 038D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009851) | 1,498 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| [Dudley 040A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009854) | 1,503 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
| [Dudley 040B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009857) | 1,688 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.3% |
| [Dudley 040C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009858) | 1,477 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.8% |
| [Dudley 040D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009859) | 1,538 | 26.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.8% |
| [Dudley 041A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009845) | 1,548 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| [Dudley 041B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009846) | 1,496 | 13.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| [Dudley 041C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009850) | 1,477 | 105.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
| [Dudley 041D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009852) | 1,410 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| [Dudley 042A](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009832) | 1,744 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| [Dudley 042B](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009853) | 1,374 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| [Dudley 042C](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009855) | 1,653 | 9.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 48.6% |
| [Dudley 042D](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/neighbourhood/e01009860) | 1,503 | 40.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.7% |

## Your MP

- [Stourbridge](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stourbridge): Cat Eccles (Labour), 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

[Dudley](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley)

## Postcode districts covering Stourbridge

[DY5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/dy5), [DY8](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/dy8), [DY9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/dy9)

## Middle areas in Stourbridge

[Amblecote West & Stambermill](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/amblecote-west-and-stambermill), [Lye & Wynall](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/lye-and-wynall), [Norton North](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/norton-north), [Norton South](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/norton-south), [Oldswinford & Pedmore](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/oldswinford-and-pedmore), [Pedmore Fields](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/pedmore-fields), [Stourbridge Town & Old Quarter](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/stourbridge-town-and-old-quarter), [Wollaston](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley/wollaston)

## Towns near Stourbridge

[Kingswinford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kingswinford), [Brierley Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/brierley-hill), [Halesowen](https://openindex.co.uk/town/halesowen), [Cradley Heath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cradley-heath), [Dudley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dudley), [Rowley Regis](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rowley-regis)

## Stourbridge in brief

Stourbridge is a town in Dudley, West Midlands.
About 57,768 people lived in Stourbridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 790 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stourbridge was £275,000 in 2025.
Stourbridge had 56,961 usual residents at the census.
About 61% of people in Stourbridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stourbridge, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63002944
- Constituency: [Stourbridge †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stourbridge)
- Council: [Dudley †](https://openindex.co.uk/dudley)
- Region: [West Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/west-midlands)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 14.52 km²
- People, mid-2024: 57,768*
- Neighbourhoods: 37
- Output areas: 186

* 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

[Kingswinford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kingswinford), [Halesowen](https://openindex.co.uk/town/halesowen), [Brierley Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/brierley-hill), [Cradley Heath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cradley-heath), [Dudley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dudley), [Rowley Regis](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rowley-regis)

## Latest updates for Stourbridge

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63002944

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/stourbridge, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/stourbridge#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/stourbridge