Lower Wick & Pitmaston
WardSouth west Worcester. About 5,809 people in 3.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 93% of people in Lower Wick & Pitmaston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lower Wick & Pitmaston compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lower Wick & Pitmaston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lower Wick & Pitmaston at a rate of 56.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 112.2 per 1,000 people across Worcester.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 33 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lower Wick & Pitmaston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (111), shoplifting (70) and other crime (51).
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 Worcester
These figures are published for the whole of Worcester, not for each ward, so they describe all of Worcester and not Lower Wick & Pitmaston alone. See Worcester
Lower Wick & Pitmaston in brief
Lower Wick & Pitmaston had 5,647 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Lower Wick & Pitmaston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lower Wick & Pitmaston, 90.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Lower Wick & Pitmaston, 1.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.