Neighbourhoods in Wolverhampton
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.
33 neighbourhoods · 161 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Wolverhampton Central | £798 | +11.9% | 85 | 17 |
| Blakenhall | £823 | +11.9% | 85 | 49 |
| Low Hill | £824 | +11.9% | 87 | 43 |
| East Park | £830 | +11.9% | 83 | 43 |
| Whitmore Reans & Dunstall Hill | £847 | +11.9% | 97 | 72 |
| Park Lane | £861 | +11.9% | 94 | 58 |
| Bradley | £869 | +11.9% | 83 | 42 |
| Ashmore Park | £875 | +11.9% | 69 | 49 |
| Woodcross | £881 | +11.9% | 83 | 61 |
| Heath Town | £885 | +11.9% | 90 | 41 |
| Bilston North East | £889 | +11.9% | 84 | 63 |
| Ettingshall | £889 | +11.9% | 78 | 31 |
| Bushbury | £913 | +11.9% | 73 | 71 |
| Pendeford | £916 | +11.9% | 87 | 69 |
| Oxley Park | £917 | +11.9% | 82 | 63 |
| Wednesfield Town | £918 | +11.9% | 70 | 67 |
| West Park | £920 | +11.9% | 90 | 37 |
| Fordhouses | £925 | +11.9% | 74 | 58 |
| Bushbury Hill | £936 | +11.9% | 62 | 41 |
| Wednesfield North East | £947 | +11.9% | 83 | 82 |
| Ettingshall Park | £949 | +11.9% | 96 | 77 |
| Wood End | £951 | +11.9% | 78 | 73 |
| Bilston Lunt & Loxdale | £956 | +11.9% | 63 | 33 |
| Tettenhall North | £958 | +11.9% | 65 | 78 |
| Bradmore | £961 | +11.9% | 90 | 87 |
| Waterloo Road | £962 | +11.9% | 95 | 37 |
| Merryhill South | £973 | +11.9% | 75 | 73 |
| Bilston North West | £988 | +11.9% | 79 | 61 |
| Goldthorn Park | £1,045 | +11.9% | 55 | 75 |
| Upper Penn | £1,059 | +11.9% | 83 | 89 |
| Tettenhall South | £1,059 | +11.9% | 80 | 81 |
| Compton & Merryhill North | £1,097 | +11.9% | 72 | 80 |
| Castlecroft | £1,108 | +11.9% | 70 | 80 |
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 Wolverhampton
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Wolverhampton. 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 Wolverhampton median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Wolverhampton.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Wolverhampton
Crime in Wolverhampton runs at 22% below the national average. Below median (#233 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 78.2, 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 Wolverhampton
100% of schools serving Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton
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 Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton has 0.42 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Wolverhampton
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 Wolverhampton?
- The median monthly rent across Wolverhampton is £928, 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 Wolverhampton?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Wolverhampton by estimated median rent is Wolverhampton Central at approximately £798/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Wolverhampton?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Wolverhampton is Whitmore Reans & Dunstall Hill at 97/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Wolverhampton a safe area?
- Wolverhampton has an average safety score of 58/100 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 Wolverhampton?
- The most common council tax band in Wolverhampton is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,209. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Wolverhampton.
- What is the average salary in Wolverhampton?
- The median annual resident salary in Wolverhampton is £31,308, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Wolverhampton, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Wolverhampton?
- The average property price in Wolverhampton is approximately £213,623 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 Wolverhampton?
- Gross rental yield in Wolverhampton is approximately 4.7% — 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 Wolverhampton?
- 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 3.4 years in Wolverhampton. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Wolverhampton?
- 100% of premises in Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton?
- 6.9% of 16-64 residents in Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton?
- Wolverhampton contains 33 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 161 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 Wolverhampton
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.
- Wolverhampton 020D
- Wolverhampton 029A
- Wolverhampton 035B
- Wolverhampton 030A
- Wolverhampton 020A
- Wolverhampton 017D
- Wolverhampton 035G
- Wolverhampton 027C
- Wolverhampton 035D
- Wolverhampton 016D
- Wolverhampton 013B
- Wolverhampton 015A
- Wolverhampton 029B
- Wolverhampton 015B
- Wolverhampton 035H
- Wolverhampton 007D
- Wolverhampton 027B
- Wolverhampton 012C
- Wolverhampton 013D
- Wolverhampton 018E
- Wolverhampton 015E
- Wolverhampton 017C
- Wolverhampton 015D
- Wolverhampton 017A
- Wolverhampton 001A
- Wolverhampton 020C
- Wolverhampton 033B
- Wolverhampton 006F
- Wolverhampton 011A
- Wolverhampton 030D
- Wolverhampton 020B
- Wolverhampton 032A
- Wolverhampton 029E
- Wolverhampton 023B
- Wolverhampton 008E
- Wolverhampton 005E
- Wolverhampton 011B
- Wolverhampton 017B
- Wolverhampton 008A
- Wolverhampton 022C
- Wolverhampton 020E
- Wolverhampton 013C
- Wolverhampton 016C
- Wolverhampton 029C
- Wolverhampton 016B
- Wolverhampton 026A
- Wolverhampton 035E
- Wolverhampton 015F
- Wolverhampton 035A
- Wolverhampton 016A
- Wolverhampton 027A
- Wolverhampton 008C
- Wolverhampton 031C
- Wolverhampton 035I
- Wolverhampton 022D
- Wolverhampton 033C
- Wolverhampton 020G
- Wolverhampton 034A
- Wolverhampton 031D
- Wolverhampton 017E
- Wolverhampton 033A
- Wolverhampton 012A
- Wolverhampton 035C
- Wolverhampton 011C
- Wolverhampton 005A
- Wolverhampton 002C
- Wolverhampton 019D
- Wolverhampton 026C
- Wolverhampton 027D
- Wolverhampton 034B
- Wolverhampton 009A
- Wolverhampton 028C
- Wolverhampton 023A
- Wolverhampton 033D
- Wolverhampton 022B
- Wolverhampton 019A
- Wolverhampton 034C
- Wolverhampton 026E
- Wolverhampton 012D
- Wolverhampton 018B
Showing 80 of 161 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.