Willenhall
TownTown in Walsall, West Midlands.
Willenhall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Willenhall 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 86% of people in Willenhall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Willenhall compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Willenhall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Willenhall at a rate of 105.3 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, 488 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Willenhall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,158), other crime (755) and shoplifting (630).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Willenhall was 104.8 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 Willenhall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Willenhall has no single figure. Of its 30 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 13 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Willenhall
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall 011A | 1,350 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Walsall 011B | 1,701 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 011C | 1,534 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.9% |
| Walsall 011D | 1,525 | 37.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Walsall 014A | 1,468 | 24.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 014B | 1,345 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Walsall 014C | 1,680 | 72.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 014D | 2,108 | 114.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Walsall 019A | 1,177 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 019B | 1,272 | 64.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.2% |
| Walsall 019C | 1,500 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Walsall 019D | 1,679 | 85.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Walsall 020A | 1,225 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| Walsall 020B | 1,811 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Walsall 020C | 1,426 | 46.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 020D | 1,570 | 139.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.6% |
| Walsall 023A | 1,660 | 99.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Walsall 023B | 1,592 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 023C | 1,872 | 116.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Walsall 023D | 1,317 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Walsall 025A | 1,619 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Walsall 025B | 1,953 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Walsall 025C | 2,027 | 189.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
| Walsall 025D | 1,877 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Walsall 025E | 1,759 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Walsall 027A | 1,750 | 140.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Walsall 027B | 1,837 | 123.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Walsall 027C | 2,868 | 363.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.5% |
| Walsall 027D | 1,549 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Walsall 033A | 1,873 | 126.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 79.2% |
Your MP
- Pat McFaddenLabourMP for Wolverhampton South East
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 Willenhall3
Middle areas in Willenhall7
Towns near Willenhall6
Willenhall in brief
Willenhall is a town in Walsall, West Midlands.
About 51,624 people lived in Willenhall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £207,750 in 2025 across 460 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 105.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Willenhall was £207,750 in 2025.
Willenhall had 49,582 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in Willenhall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Willenhall, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.