Wyken
WardEast Coventry. About 19,362 people in 5.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 88% of people in Wyken live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wyken compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wyken safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wyken at a rate of 78.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 98.5 per 1,000 people across Coventry.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 131 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wyken.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (553), shoplifting (248) and other crime (227).
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 Coventry
These figures are published for the whole of Coventry, not for each ward, so they describe all of Coventry and not Wyken alone. See Coventry
Wyken in brief
Wyken had 18,979 usual residents at the census.
About 88% of people in Wyken live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wyken, 99.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wyken, 4.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.