Overdale & The Rock
WardSouth Telford and Wrekin. About 3,929 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Overdale & The Rock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Overdale & The Rock compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Overdale & The Rock safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Overdale & The Rock at a rate of 428.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 87.3 per 1,000 people across Telford and Wrekin.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 118 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Overdale & The Rock.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (499), shoplifting (336) and other crime (176).
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 Telford and Wrekin
These figures are published for the whole of Telford and Wrekin, not for each ward, so they describe all of Telford and Wrekin and not Overdale & The Rock alone. See Telford and Wrekin
Overdale & The Rock in brief
Overdale & The Rock had 3,346 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Overdale & The Rock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Overdale & The Rock, 85.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Overdale & The Rock, 5.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.