Oxley
WardNorth west Wolverhampton. About 15,112 people in 4.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 5% of people in Oxley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oxley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oxley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oxley at a rate of 78.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 99.3 per 1,000 people across Wolverhampton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 74 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oxley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (460), shoplifting (293) and other crime (133).
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.
Figures for the whole of Wolverhampton
These figures are published for the whole of Wolverhampton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wolverhampton and not Oxley alone. See Wolverhampton
Oxley in brief
Oxley had 14,088 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in Oxley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oxley, 99.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Oxley, 5.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.