Tipton
TownTown in Sandwell, West Midlands.
Tipton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tipton 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 26% of people in Tipton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tipton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tipton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tipton at a rate of 100.3 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, 474 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tipton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,079), other crime (783) and vehicle crime (463).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tipton was 98.1 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 Tipton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tipton has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Tipton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 005D | 1,904 | 87.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.6% |
| Sandwell 007A | 1,738 | 166.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.7% |
| Sandwell 007B | 1,239 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 007C | 1,331 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| Sandwell 007D | 2,001 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
| Sandwell 009A | 1,590 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Sandwell 009B | 1,596 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 009C | 1,650 | 84.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Sandwell 009D | 1,334 | 76.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Sandwell 014A | 1,850 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Sandwell 014B | 1,544 | 186.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Sandwell 014C | 1,656 | 113.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 014D | 1,651 | 133.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.1% |
| Sandwell 014F | 1,645 | 100.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.1% |
| Sandwell 014G | 1,535 | 105.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.0% |
| Sandwell 015A | 1,708 | 85.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 015B | 1,761 | 96.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Sandwell 015C | 1,868 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.0% |
| Sandwell 015D | 1,772 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.8% |
| Sandwell 015E | 1,547 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 015F | 2,066 | 123.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Sandwell 016A | 2,745 | 84.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.6% |
| Sandwell 016B | 2,025 | 145.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.5% |
| Sandwell 016D | 2,344 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Sandwell 016F | 1,767 | 107.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| Sandwell 021D | 2,352 | 98.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
Your MP
- Antonia BanceLabourMP for Tipton and Wednesbury
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 Tipton2
Middle areas in Tipton5
Towns near Tipton6
Tipton in brief
Tipton is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands.
About 47,798 people lived in Tipton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,000 in 2025 across 366 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Tipton was £205,000 in 2025.
Tipton had 47,202 usual residents at the census.
About 26% of people in Tipton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tipton, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.