Photo: Gordon Griffiths · CC BY-SA 2.0For burglary, vehicle crime and damage, Sedgley trails 90% of UK towns per resident
Police recorded 217 cases of vehicle crime in Sedgley in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 6.8 per 1,000 against a typical 2.8. Out of every 1,000 residents, 32 violent and sexual offences and 19 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually. Its Safety Grade, C− (#14 of 35 in West Midlands), rests on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: more crime per resident than 79% of UK towns. Recorded violence rose 8% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Sedgley
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 8% more violent crime per resident in Sedgley than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 13% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 201 UK towns of 22,000 to 43,000 people, Sedgley has the 114th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Warwick, Leyland and Witham, higher than Totton, Windsor and Melton Mowbray. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Sedgley’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 4,892 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Sedgley against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Sedgley runs highest on vehicle crime (6.8 per 1,000 against 2.8), burglary (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.4) and possession of weapons (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.7). Drugs and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 925 | 28.9 | 30.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 217 | 6.8 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 204 | 6.4 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 163 | 5.1 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 147 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 130 | 4.1 | 2.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 120 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 99 | 3.1 | 12.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 47 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 42 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 38 | 1.2 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 27 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 8 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Sedgley per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 17 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Sedgley has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +8% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -13% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +15% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -59% (towns its size -4%).
How Sedgley’s neighbourhoods rank in England
28% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 25% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Sedgley’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Lowest recorded crime in Castle and Priory, Sedgley and Gornal; highest in Upper Gornal and Woodsetton
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle and Priory | 2,046 | 15.6 | 11.1 | |
| Sedgley | 11,744 | 30.5 | 17.3 | |
| Gornal | 13,350 | 30.5 | 18.9 | |
| Upper Gornal and Woodsetton | 4,515 | 46.3 | 25.2 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 368 | 44% violent |
| Petrol stations | 137 | 42% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 51 | 49% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Upper Gornal and Woodsetton records 1.6× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Sedgley. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Sedgley. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Sedgley’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Of 201 towns its size, Sedgley is 114th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 111 | Totton Hampshire | 28,093 | 35.3 | 14.7 | 15.1 | C− |
| 112 | Windsor Berkshire | 31,569 | 34 | 16.3 | 21.7 | C− |
| 113 | Melton Mowbray Leicestershire | 27,451 | 35.1 | 15.7 | 17.3 | C− |
| 114 | Sedgley West Midlands | 31,976 | 32 | 19 | 7.8 | C− |
| 115 | Rowley Regis West Midlands | 39,052 | 36.6 | 14.4 | 7.6 | C− |
| 116 | Yate Gloucestershire | 28,352 | 38.4 | 12.7 | 13.2 | C− |
| 117 | Newbury Berkshire | 42,262 | 37.1 | 14.1 | 20.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 138 | Coseley West Midlands | 25,206 | 35.8 | 19.6 | 9.8 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 174 | Brierley Hill West Midlands | 32,311 | 47.5 | 22.6 | 29.3 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 196 | Bilston West Midlands | 34,631 | 58.9 | 29.4 | 26.7 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 201 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Sedgley, and others in West Midlands.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 68% of Sedgley’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (75% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 3% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 1,798 crimes.
Three people died in collisions on Sedgley’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 119 collisions with injuries inside Sedgley in five years, in which three people died. 28 people were killed or seriously injured: 9 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Sedgley’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sedgley’s own rate (1.9) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Sedgley had 17.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Sedgley’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Sedgley
Sedgley records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Kingswinford, 3 miles away, records 24.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Sedgley’s 32.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Sedgley sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Sedgley
Is Sedgley safe?
Police recorded 32 violent and sexual offences and 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Sedgley’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 21% of UK towns. Among 201 UK towns of 22,000 to 43,000 people, Sedgley is 114th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Sedgley?
By council ward, Castle and Priory, Sedgley and Gornal record the least violent and household crime per resident: 15.6, 30.5 and 30.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 46.3 in Upper Gornal and Woodsetton.
Is crime going up in Sedgley?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 8%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 13%, shoplifting and theft rose 15% and anti-social behaviour fell 59%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Sedgley?
Violence & sexual offences: 925 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (217) and criminal damage & arson (204), with 99 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Sedgley compare with Wolverhampton?
Wolverhampton records 50.6 violent and sexual offences and 21.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Sedgley’s 32 and 19, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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