DY5
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Brierley Hill, Withymoor Village and Brockmoor, in Dudley.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an DY5 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 74% of people in DY5 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How DY5 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is DY5 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in DY5 at a rate of 109.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 84.5 per 1,000 people across the DY postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 408 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in DY5.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,904), shoplifting (977) and other crime (694).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in DY5 was 110.9 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in DY5, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so DY5 has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in DY5
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley 013A | 1,658 | 166.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Dudley 016A | 2,372 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
| Dudley 016B | 1,485 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 017A | 1,513 | 72.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 017B | 1,642 | 89.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Dudley 017C | 1,593 | 126.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 017D | 1,716 | 107.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 017E | 1,583 | 161.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Dudley 022A | 2,038 | 479.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.4% |
| Dudley 022B | 2,150 | 252.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.3% |
| Dudley 022C | 1,980 | 119.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Dudley 022D | 1,541 | 99.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 023B | 2,175 | 85.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Dudley 023D | 1,816 | 88.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Dudley 025A | 1,531 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 025B | 1,582 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Dudley 025C | 1,665 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Dudley 025D | 1,720 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Dudley 027A | 1,393 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Dudley 027B | 1,293 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Dudley 027C | 1,324 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 027D | 1,224 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Dudley 027E | 1,549 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dudley 028A | 1,293 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Dudley 028B | 1,182 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| Dudley 028C | 1,442 | 28.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Dudley 028D | 1,462 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
MPs for DY5
- Cat EcclesLabourMP for Stourbridge58% of DY5’s postcodes
- Sonia KumarLabourMP for Dudley27% of DY5’s postcodes
- Alex BallingerLabourMP for Halesowen15% of DY5’s postcodes
- Mike WoodConservativeMP for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire0.1% of DY5’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in DY56
Postcode sectors in DY55
Council1
Towns in DY54
Postcode districts next to DY58
Nearest rail stations4
More in the DY postcode area2
DY5 in brief
DY5 is a postcode district covering Brierley Hill, Withymoor Village and Brockmoor, in Dudley.
About 44,785 people lived in DY5 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £204,000 in 2025 across 449 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 109.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in DY5 was £204,000 in 2025.
DY5 had 43,248 usual residents at the census.
About 74% of people in DY5 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In DY5, 97.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.