Etching Hill & the Heath
WardNorth Cannock Chase. About 8,704 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 17 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 80% of people in Etching Hill & the Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Etching Hill & the Heath compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Etching Hill & the Heath safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Etching Hill & the Heath at a rate of 67.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 86.0 per 1,000 people across Cannock Chase.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 67 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Etching Hill & the Heath.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (303), other crime (121) and anti-social behaviour (81).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Cannock Chase
These figures are published for the whole of Cannock Chase, not for each ward, so they describe all of Cannock Chase and not Etching Hill & the Heath alone. See Cannock Chase
Etching Hill & the Heath in brief
Etching Hill & the Heath had 8,726 usual residents at the census.
About 80% of people in Etching Hill & the Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Etching Hill & the Heath, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Etching Hill & the Heath, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.