Walsall
TownTown in Walsall, West Midlands.
Walsall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Walsall 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 99% of people in Walsall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Walsall compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Walsall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Walsall at a rate of 138.9 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, 947 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Walsall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,113), other crime (1,745) and shoplifting (1,506).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Walsall was 133.1 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 Walsall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Walsall has no single figure. Of its 41 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 19 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Walsall
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall 018E | 2,307 | 158.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.4% |
| Walsall 021A | 1,595 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.6% |
| Walsall 021B | 1,797 | 231.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Walsall 024A | 1,608 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.1% |
| Walsall 024B | 1,626 | 143.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.0% |
| Walsall 024C | 1,923 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 83.9% |
| Walsall 024D | 1,744 | 246.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.9% |
| Walsall 026A | 1,635 | 73.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Walsall 026B | 1,757 | 88.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.6% |
| Walsall 026C | 1,876 | 102.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Walsall 026D | 2,713 | 276.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.3% |
| Walsall 029A | 1,659 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.3% |
| Walsall 029B | 1,695 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 029C | 1,525 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 14.8% |
| Walsall 029D | 1,479 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.5% |
| Walsall 030A | 2,196 | 827.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.5% |
| Walsall 030B | 2,090 | 179.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.2% |
| Walsall 030D | 1,634 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.3% |
| Walsall 030E | 1,890 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.8% |
| Walsall 030F | 1,618 | 440.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 72.7% |
| Walsall 030G | 1,432 | 156.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.6% |
| Walsall 031A | 1,500 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.4% |
| Walsall 031B | 1,609 | 132.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Walsall 031C | 1,715 | 179.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.3% |
| Walsall 031D | 1,821 | 122.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 031E | 1,912 | 61.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Walsall 034A | 1,527 | 139.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
| Walsall 034B | 1,752 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.9% |
| Walsall 034C | 1,687 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Walsall 034D | 1,846 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
| Walsall 034E | 1,601 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Walsall 034F | 1,851 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 035A | 1,654 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 15.7% |
| Walsall 035B | 2,003 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 30.4% |
| Walsall 035C | 1,611 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 68.0% |
| Walsall 035D | 1,577 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.0% |
| Walsall 037A | 1,635 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| Walsall 037B | 1,378 | 85.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.4% |
| Walsall 037C | 1,886 | 157.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.9% |
| Walsall 037D | 1,526 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Walsall 039A | 1,672 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.4% |
Your MP
- Valerie VazLabourMP for Walsall and Bloxwich
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 Walsall4
Middle areas in Walsall8
Towns near Walsall6
Walsall in brief
Walsall is a town in Walsall, West Midlands.
About 76,064 people lived in Walsall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 547 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 138.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Walsall was £210,000 in 2025.
Walsall had 70,777 usual residents at the census.
About 99% of people in Walsall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Walsall, 86.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.