Category Archives: Demographics

24th February 2020

The latest Walsall Ward Profiles are now available! They offer an overview of each of the 20 wards that comprise Walsall Borough & detail their social, economic & demographic composition. Please find them located on our ward profiles page   We’ve also updating our Locality Profiles: groupings of wards into “North”, “South”, “East” & “West”, […]

6th January 2020

The Indices of Multiple Deprivation have been updated for 2019 – they rank each English local area (LSOA) according to how deprived it is over seven domains: income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing & environment. From this we can see how deprived each LSOA is, relative to the rest of England. In brief: […]

31st October 2019

The Office for National Statistics have released their latest (2018) mid-year population estimates for boroughs across the UK! Walsall’s population is now estimated to be 284,300. We’ve updated our population dashboard to show this broken down by ward, age & sex. Please find more information on the population page.  

7th March 2019

We’ve added an interactive population tool to our population page! With it, you can view Walsall’s estimated population (2017) and filter it by age, sex, & by ward Please try it out & feel free to send any feedback through our Contact Us page!  

17th July 2018

The Office for National Statistics have released their latest (2017) mid-year population estimates for boroughs across the UK! Walsall’s population is now estimated to be 281,293. This represents a 0.92% increase in the overall population since 2016: proportionately greater than both the England (0.63%) & UK (0.59%) estimates. Please find more information on the population page. […]