Wombourne
TownTown in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.
Wombourne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wombourne 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 93% of people in Wombourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wombourne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wombourne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wombourne at a rate of 50.1 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, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wombourne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (267), other crime (117) and anti-social behaviour (90).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wombourne was 49.1 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 Wombourne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wombourne has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wombourne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Staffordshire 012A | 1,518 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% |
| South Staffordshire 012B | 1,514 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.5% |
| South Staffordshire 012C | 1,090 | 90.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.0% |
| South Staffordshire 012D | 1,479 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| South Staffordshire 012E | 1,521 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.7% |
| South Staffordshire 013D | 1,705 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 61.8% |
| South Staffordshire 013E | 1,457 | 26.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| South Staffordshire 013F | 1,367 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| South Staffordshire 013G | 1,574 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.7% |
Your MP
- Mike WoodConservativeMP for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
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 Wombourne1
Middle areas in Wombourne2
Towns near Wombourne6
Wombourne in brief
Wombourne is a town in South Staffordshire, West Midlands.
About 13,353 people lived in Wombourne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 194 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wombourne was £310,000 in 2025.
Wombourne had 12,810 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Wombourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wombourne, 90.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.