Whitchurch
TownTown in Shropshire, West Midlands.
Whitchurch is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitchurch 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 10% of people in Whitchurch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitchurch compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitchurch safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitchurch at a rate of 69.3 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, 62 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitchurch.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (321), other crime (95) and anti-social behaviour (93).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whitchurch 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 Whitchurch, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitchurch has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whitchurch
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire 001A | 1,654 | 101.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
| Shropshire 001B | 1,808 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.1% |
| Shropshire 001C | 1,365 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Shropshire 001D | 1,689 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Shropshire 001E | 2,135 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
| Shropshire 001F | 1,491 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Helen MorganLiberal DemocratMP for North Shropshire
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 Whitchurch1
Middle areas in Whitchurch1
Towns near Whitchurch6
Whitchurch in brief
Whitchurch is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands.
About 9,908 people lived in Whitchurch in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £246,996 in 2025 across 225 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whitchurch was £246,996 in 2025.
Whitchurch had 9,856 usual residents at the census.
About 10% of people in Whitchurch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitchurch, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.