Rowley Regis

20°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 11° · 84% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:32

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

371 reported · July 2026▲ 38% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences149
• Shoplifting75
• Vehicle crime25
• Criminal damage & arson22

16 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Rowley Town · 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

• 382 rated 4–5 ★ (276 top)
• 14 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Rowley Regis (1.1 km)
• 67 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 (5.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (5.1 km)

63 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

76 charging locations within ~8 km

• 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Rowley Regis Hospital (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches37
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds14

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 6 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

Sarah Coombes

Labour

West Bromwich

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

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

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

• Schools14
• GPs & clinics5
• Pharmacies7
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens27
• Restaurants & cafés56

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,600 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

99 jobs advertised · £41,866 avg

e.g. Production Operative / Trainee Machinist, Become a Primary school Tutor in Rowley Regis – Flexible & Remote, Our clients are searching electricians for the service tv aerial in Rowley Regis

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

97% low-carbon electricity

Wind 66% · Solar 15% · Nuclear 15% · Gas 3%

12 gCO₂/kWh · very 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 West Bromwich:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s354 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office287 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership227 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test213 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 147 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide

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

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  Rowley Regis Hospital · 0.6 km

  Rowley Regis Community Hospital is a hospital in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England. It is managed by the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

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  Rowley Regis · 0.7 km

  Rowley Regis is a town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands County, England. Historically in Staffordshire, it forms part of the Black Country and encompasses the four Sandwell council wards of…

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  Blackheath, West Midlands · 0.9 km

  Blackheath is a town and electoral ward in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Midlands, England.

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  Rowley Regis railway station · 1.1 km

  Rowley Regis railway station serves the towns of Blackheath and Rowley Regis in the county of West Midlands, England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. The station is managed by West…

• St Michael's Church of England High School, Rowley Regis · 1.2 km

  St Michael's Church of England High School is a coeducational Church of England secondary school located in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England. It was built during the 1960s and relocated from there to its current s…

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  Old Hill High Street railway station · 1.3 km

  Old Hill High Street railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway's Bumble Hole Line between Blowers Green and Old Hill. It was the second of the two stations in Old Hill, and its location in refe…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)