Neighbourhoods in South Staffordshire
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
13 neighbourhoods · 68 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Featherstone East & Essington | £839 | +6.4% | 67 | 45 |
| Huntington | £840 | +6.4% | 51 | 66 |
| South Staffordshire 015 | £858 | +6.4% | 91 | 87 |
| Cheslyn Hay | £860 | +6.4% | 93 | 94 |
| Featherstone West, Coven & Shareshill | £878 | +6.4% | 47 | 72 |
| Great Wyrley | £899 | +6.4% | 71 | 77 |
| Bilbrook | £918 | +6.4% | 82 | 51 |
| Penkridge & Acton Trussell | £953 | +6.4% | 23 | 72 |
| Brewood & Wheaton Aston | £953 | +6.4% | 10 | 72 |
| Wombourne Inner | £964 | +6.4% | 53 | 80 |
| Codsall | £973 | +6.4% | 80 | 96 |
| Wombourne Outer, Swindon & Seisdon | £1,042 | +6.4% | 60 | 93 |
| Kinver | £1,126 | +6.4% | 21 | 81 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in South Staffordshire
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in South Staffordshire. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the South Staffordshire median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across South Staffordshire.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in South Staffordshire
Crime in South Staffordshire runs at 2.0× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#73 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 49.7, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in South Staffordshire
100% of schools serving South Staffordshire are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in South Staffordshire
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from South Staffordshire
South Staffordshire has 0.34 jobs per resident locally. Bottom quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about South Staffordshire
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in South Staffordshire?
- The median monthly rent across South Staffordshire is £942, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in South Staffordshire?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in South Staffordshire by estimated median rent is Featherstone East & Essington at approximately £839/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in South Staffordshire?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in South Staffordshire is Cheslyn Hay at 93/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is South Staffordshire a safe area?
- South Staffordshire has an average safety score of 74/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in South Staffordshire?
- The most common council tax band in South Staffordshire is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £228. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within South Staffordshire.
- What is the average salary in South Staffordshire?
- The median annual resident salary in South Staffordshire is £31,766, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in South Staffordshire, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in South Staffordshire?
- The average property price in South Staffordshire is approximately £298,032 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in South Staffordshire?
- Gross rental yield in South Staffordshire is approximately 3.5% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in South Staffordshire?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.6 years in South Staffordshire. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in South Staffordshire?
- 100% of premises in South Staffordshire are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in South Staffordshire?
- 2.6% of 16-64 residents in South Staffordshire are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in South Staffordshire?
- South Staffordshire contains 13 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 68 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in South Staffordshire
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- South Staffordshire 013B
- South Staffordshire 015A
- South Staffordshire 015F
- South Staffordshire 012D
- South Staffordshire 015B
- South Staffordshire 015E
- South Staffordshire 012B
- South Staffordshire 001B
- South Staffordshire 004F
- South Staffordshire 008C
- South Staffordshire 001C
- South Staffordshire 005C
- South Staffordshire 003B
- South Staffordshire 012A
- South Staffordshire 008D
- South Staffordshire 001D
- South Staffordshire 003E
- South Staffordshire 009E
- South Staffordshire 009B
- South Staffordshire 007D
- South Staffordshire 013A
- South Staffordshire 001F
- South Staffordshire 015D
- South Staffordshire 003A
- South Staffordshire 005A
- South Staffordshire 006D
- South Staffordshire 007A
- South Staffordshire 004E
- South Staffordshire 012E
- South Staffordshire 007B
- South Staffordshire 008B
- South Staffordshire 001E
- South Staffordshire 013D
- South Staffordshire 001A
- South Staffordshire 002C
- South Staffordshire 004G
- South Staffordshire 013C
- South Staffordshire 013G
- South Staffordshire 004A
- South Staffordshire 015C
- South Staffordshire 006B
- South Staffordshire 005D
- South Staffordshire 006A
- South Staffordshire 012C
- South Staffordshire 007C
- South Staffordshire 002A
- South Staffordshire 004B
- South Staffordshire 002B
- South Staffordshire 004D
- South Staffordshire 013F
- South Staffordshire 014B
- South Staffordshire 014C
- South Staffordshire 005E
- South Staffordshire 015G
- South Staffordshire 013E
- South Staffordshire 002D
- South Staffordshire 006C
- South Staffordshire 004C
- South Staffordshire 014D
- South Staffordshire 014E
- South Staffordshire 014A
- South Staffordshire 005B
- South Staffordshire 003C
- South Staffordshire 008A
- South Staffordshire 009A
- South Staffordshire 003D
- South Staffordshire 009C
- South Staffordshire 009D