Neighbourhoods in Wyre Forest
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.
14 neighbourhoods · 67 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Kidderminster Town | £740 | +4.6% | 85 | 19 |
| Foley Park | £750 | +4.6% | 97 | 78 |
| Stourport Areley Kings | £752 | +4.6% | 62 | 50 |
| Stourport Mitton & Wilden | £776 | +4.6% | 63 | 50 |
| Birchen Coppice | £784 | +4.6% | 85 | 27 |
| Habberley | £810 | +4.6% | 90 | 55 |
| Greenhill | £824 | +4.6% | 98 | 89 |
| Franche | £826 | +4.6% | 85 | 84 |
| Comberton | £830 | +4.6% | 96 | 65 |
| Spennells & Hoobrook | £851 | +4.6% | 96 | 84 |
| Stourport Lickhill & Burlish | £855 | +4.6% | 92 | 87 |
| Bewdley West, Ribbesford & Far Forest | £934 | +4.6% | 15 | 79 |
| Bewdley East & Upper Arley | £936 | +4.6% | 57 | 73 |
| Wolverley, Cookley & Blakedown | £1,053 | +4.6% | 16 | 75 |
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 Wyre Forest
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Wyre Forest. 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 Wyre Forest median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Wyre Forest.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Wyre Forest
Crime in Wyre Forest runs at 41% below the national average. Above median (#128 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 58.8, 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 Wyre Forest
100% of schools serving Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest
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 Wyre Forest
Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest
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 Wyre Forest?
- The median monthly rent across Wyre Forest is £849, 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 Wyre Forest?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Wyre Forest by estimated median rent is Kidderminster Town at approximately £740/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Wyre Forest?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Wyre Forest is Greenhill at 98/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Wyre Forest a safe area?
- Wyre Forest has an average safety score of 61/100 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 Wyre Forest?
- The most common council tax band in Wyre Forest is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £338. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Wyre Forest.
- What is the average salary in Wyre Forest?
- The median annual resident salary in Wyre Forest is £29,408, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Wyre Forest, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Wyre Forest?
- The average property price in Wyre Forest is approximately £227,655 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 Wyre Forest?
- Gross rental yield in Wyre Forest is approximately 3.7% — 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 Wyre Forest?
- 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 4.3 years in Wyre Forest. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Wyre Forest?
- 100% of premises in Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest?
- 3.3% of 16-64 residents in Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest?
- Wyre Forest contains 14 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 67 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 Wyre Forest
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.
- Wyre Forest 007A
- Wyre Forest 004A
- Wyre Forest 008A
- Wyre Forest 006D
- Wyre Forest 003D
- Wyre Forest 008B
- Wyre Forest 007D
- Wyre Forest 004C
- Wyre Forest 008C
- Wyre Forest 013B
- Wyre Forest 004E
- Wyre Forest 013C
- Wyre Forest 003A
- Wyre Forest 013A
- Wyre Forest 004F
- Wyre Forest 004B
- Wyre Forest 010E
- Wyre Forest 006C
- Wyre Forest 011B
- Wyre Forest 002A
- Wyre Forest 003C
- Wyre Forest 002D
- Wyre Forest 005A
- Wyre Forest 008E
- Wyre Forest 002B
- Wyre Forest 012B
- Wyre Forest 014B
- Wyre Forest 002E
- Wyre Forest 014A
- Wyre Forest 013D
- Wyre Forest 005D
- Wyre Forest 007C
- Wyre Forest 006B
- Wyre Forest 001F
- Wyre Forest 012E
- Wyre Forest 010A
- Wyre Forest 014D
- Wyre Forest 003B
- Wyre Forest 009E
- Wyre Forest 005B
- Wyre Forest 009D
- Wyre Forest 010B
- Wyre Forest 009A
- Wyre Forest 001A
- Wyre Forest 002C
- Wyre Forest 005C
- Wyre Forest 006A
- Wyre Forest 007F
- Wyre Forest 007E
- Wyre Forest 009C
- Wyre Forest 001C
- Wyre Forest 001B
- Wyre Forest 003E
- Wyre Forest 012A
- Wyre Forest 001D
- Wyre Forest 012D
- Wyre Forest 001E
- Wyre Forest 011A
- Wyre Forest 011C
- Wyre Forest 012C
- Wyre Forest 010C
- Wyre Forest 007B
- Wyre Forest 014C
- Wyre Forest 010D
- Wyre Forest 008D
- Wyre Forest 011D
- Wyre Forest 011E