Brierley Hill

16°CLight rain

• Today: 20° / 11° · 74% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:33

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

374 reported · July 2026▲ 19% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences121
• Shoplifting81
• Vehicle crime41
• Criminal damage & arson25

27 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Brierley Hill and Wordsley · West Midlands

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

396 reported road collisions (2024)

97 killed or seriously injured · 518 casualties · 12.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 306 rated 4–5 ★ (222 top)
• 23 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Lye (2.4 km)
• 72 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£230,781 average▲ 5% YoY

Across Dudley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£853 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £608
• 2 bed £778
• 3 bed £937

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

6.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.8 times median annual pay (6.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 135.8p · AppleGreen (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (8 km)

46 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

57 charging locations within ~8 km

• 23 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: ASDA Brierley Hill (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres5
• Gyms3
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches25
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

323,488 residents in Dudley · 3,302/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 104 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

11% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,145 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (31% of 142,250)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

118 schools · 48,276 pupils

78 primary · 19 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 45 of 55 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

107inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dudley

284 CQC-registered services

• Care homes92
• GP practices45
• Dentists62
• Homecare agencies63
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Dudley

• In a conservation area (HIGH STREET, BRIERLEY HILL)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 14 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

214 applications decided

75.7% granted · 162 granted, 52 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Cat Eccles

Labour

Stourbridge

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 15
• Con 27
• LD 4
• Ref 23
• Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools9
• GPs & clinics6
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens158
• Restaurants & cafés101

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,600 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

164 jobs advertised · £43,002 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Contract Metrologist, Employment - Principal Associate

Source: Adzuna

£707 median full-time weekly pay

4.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,171 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 143,366 certificates

15.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

83% low-carbon electricity

Wind 47% · Nuclear 26% · Biomass 10% · Imports 8%

45 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.1 yrs women · 79.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.9 women · 59.6 men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stourbridge:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office351 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s297 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership295 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test232 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance185 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Brierley Hill Urban District · 0.2 km

  Brierley Hill Urban District was an Urban District in Staffordshire, England, comprising the areas of Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Quarry Bank, and Pensnett, now within the modern-day Dudley Metropolitan Borough in th…

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  Brierley Hill · 0.3 km

  Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is located three miles south of Dudley and one mile north of Stourbridge. Part of the Black Country and in a…

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  Round Oak rail accident · 0.4 km

  The Round Oak railway accident happened on 23 August 1858 between Brettell Lane and Round Oak railway stations, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. The breakage of a defective coupling caused seventeen…

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  Brierley Hill War Memorial · 0.5 km

  Brierley Hill War Memorial is a war memorial in Brierley Hill, Dudley, England.

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  Brierley Hill railway station · 0.5 km

  Brierley Hill railway station served the town of Brierley Hill, in the West Midlands, England. It was a stop on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line

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  Delph Locks · 0.6 km

  Delph Locks or the Delph Nine are a series of eight narrow canal locks on the Dudley No. 1 Canal in Brierley Hill, in the West Midlands, England. They were opened in 1779, and reopened in 1967 following restoration of…

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