Heath Town
WardCentral Wolverhampton. About 15,857 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Heath Town live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heath Town compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heath Town safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heath Town at a rate of 175.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 99.3 per 1,000 people across Wolverhampton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 250 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heath Town.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,225), other crime (474) and shoplifting (342).
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 Wolverhampton
These figures are published for the whole of Wolverhampton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wolverhampton and not Heath Town alone. See Wolverhampton
Heath Town in brief
Heath Town had 14,482 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Heath Town live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heath Town, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Heath Town, 9.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.