Wednesbury
TownTown in Sandwell, West Midlands.
Wednesbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wednesbury 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 100% of people in Wednesbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wednesbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wednesbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wednesbury at a rate of 125.3 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, 216 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wednesbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (865), shoplifting (536) and other crime (419).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wednesbury was 140.1 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 Wednesbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wednesbury has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wednesbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell 001A | 1,838 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Sandwell 001C | 1,664 | 274.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Sandwell 001D | 1,619 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 001E | 1,875 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| Sandwell 003A | 1,584 | 111.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 003B | 1,244 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sandwell 003C | 1,225 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Sandwell 003D | 1,882 | 62.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Sandwell 003E | 1,877 | 97.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.0% |
| Sandwell 005A | 2,125 | 228.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.4% |
| Sandwell 005B | 1,704 | 72.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Sandwell 005C | 1,820 | 240.6 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 Wednesbury1
Middle areas in Wednesbury3
Towns near Wednesbury6
Wednesbury in brief
Wednesbury is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands.
About 20,622 people lived in Wednesbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £223,000 in 2025 across 173 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 125.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wednesbury was £223,000 in 2025.
Wednesbury had 20,321 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wednesbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wednesbury, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.