Headless Cross & Oakenshaw
WardNorth Redditch. About 9,540 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Headless Cross & Oakenshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Headless Cross & Oakenshaw compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Headless Cross & Oakenshaw safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Headless Cross & Oakenshaw at a rate of 62.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 87.8 per 1,000 people across Redditch.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 46 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Headless Cross & Oakenshaw.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (244), other crime (89) and shoplifting (58).
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 Redditch
These figures are published for the whole of Redditch, not for each ward, so they describe all of Redditch and not Headless Cross & Oakenshaw alone. See Redditch
Headless Cross & Oakenshaw in brief
Headless Cross & Oakenshaw had 9,370 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Headless Cross & Oakenshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Headless Cross & Oakenshaw, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Headless Cross & Oakenshaw, 3.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.