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West Midlands

Walsall and Bloxwich

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
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What the data shows

Education deprivation: bottom 0.6%. Number of education-focused charities: 465.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

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Your councillors

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Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
59/543
Bottom 20%
health
59/543
Bottom 20%
income
5/543
Bottom 10%
housing
415/543
education
4/543
Bottom 10%
employment
10/543
Bottom 10%
environment
86/543
Bottom 20%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

income HIGH
Rank 5/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
225 income-focused charities, 2045 employees
employment HIGH
Rank 10/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
178 employment-focused charities, 1866 employees
education HIGH
Rank 4/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
465 education-focused charities, 4500 employees
crime HIGH
Rank 59/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
health MODERATE
Rank 59/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
382 health-focused charities, 5688 employees
GP ratio: 1:2184 (above 1:2000 threshold)
environment MODERATE
Rank 86/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
247 environment-focused charities, 582 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

862 registered charities

862
Charities
£17,671,729
Grants to HQ'd charities
7,813
Employees
29,582
Volunteers
27.1%
Govt funded
MEDIUM
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

ST JAMES THE LESS CHURCH FUND

356 staff
THE WALSALL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (EXPENDABLE FUNDS) COMMON INVESTMENT FUND
PERSEHOUSE PENSIONS FUND
BRITISH LEGION - WALSALL SOUTH BRANCH - WOMEN'S SECTION
LITTLE LONDON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
THE CROFT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
RING AND RIDE WEST MIDLANDS LIMITED

921 staff
CHRIST THE KING PLAYSCHOOL COVENTRY
TRUST PROPERTY ADMINISTERED ICW BEARWOOD GOSPEL HALL
MUSLIM KHALIFA SUNNAT JAMAT (WOLVERHAMPTON AND BILSTON)

GP and primary care

23
GP practices
68
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,184
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). See methodology.

People working in Walsall and Bloxwich, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 7,000
Transport 5,550
Education 5,000
Social Care 3,250
Construction 1,800
Environment / Green 550

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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