Wolverhampton West

2025 parliamentary constituency

Date elected

4th Jul 2024

Place

Constituency history

This constituency was introduced at the July 2024 general election, and replaced the previous three new constituencies:

Wolverhampton North East

Covered approximately 14% of this new constituency’s population, and 15% of this new constituency’s area.

Wolverhampton South East

Covered approximately 14% of this new constituency’s population, and 14% of this new constituency’s area.

Wolverhampton South West

Covered approximately 100% of this new constituency’s population, and 100% of this new constituency’s area.

Constituency age distribution

This area National average
Ages 0 - 15 19.3% 18.3%
Ages 16 - 24 10.6% 10.5%
Ages 25 - 34 13.0% 13.2%
Ages 35 - 49 20.3% 19.1%
Ages 50 - 64 18.9% 19.8%
Ages 65 and over 17.9% 19.1%

Constituency Population

113,000

102,977.2 national average

Current Industry

This area National average
Agriculture, energy and water 0.7% 1.1%
Construction 3.2% 4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants 8.7% 9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities 5.9% 7.9%
Manufacturing 4.5% 3.5%
Does not apply 56.9% 53.4%
Other 1.6% 2.1%
Public administration, education and health 14.4% 14.3%
Transport and communication 4.2% 4.4%

Current Occupation

This area National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations 4.0% 4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations 5.0% 6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations 4.3% 4.4%
Elementary occupations 5.6% 4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials 4.5% 6.0%
Does not apply 56.9% 53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives 4.3% 3.2%
Professional occupations 8.3% 9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations 3.2% 3.5%
Skilled trades occupations 3.8% 4.8%

Disabled under the Equality Act

17.3%

17.7% national average

Ethnicity

This area National average
Asian / Asian British 27.0% 8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 4.9% 2.8%
Other ethnic groups 4.5% 1.8%
Other White 6.4% 6.3%
White British 48.9% 77.5%

General Health

This area National average
Bad or very bad health 5.7% 5.3%
Fair health 14.1% 12.8%
Very good or good health 80.2% 81.9%

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

42.6%

31.5% national average

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

31.5%

23.6% national average

Have missed a rent payment in the last six months

26.0%

19.0% national average

Have not been able to afford to turn the heating on at home when they have felt cold in the past month

41.1%

37.5% national average

Main Language

This area National average
African languages 0.4% 0.3%
Asian languages 10.0% 3.0%
English or Welsh 80.5% 88.9%
European languages (EU) 4.9% 3.8%
Does not apply 3.4% 3.1%
North or South American languages 0% 0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages 0.0% 0.0%
Any other languages 0.7% 0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU) 0.1% 0.1%
Any other UK languages 0.0% 0.0%
Sign and supported languages 0.1% 0.0%

Travel to work method

This area National average
Bicycle 0.5% 0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach 2.5% 1.8%
Driving a car or van 22.1% 21.3%
On foot 2.6% 3.5%
Work mainly at or from home 10.4% 14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram 0.3% 0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.1% 0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under 56.9% 53.4%
Other method of travel to work 0.5% 0.5%
Passenger in a car or van 2.6% 1.8%
Taxi 0.7% 0.3%
Train 0.7% 0.8%

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

33.3%

28.7% national average

Worried about not being able to afford their mortgage or rent in the next year

45.9%

40.0% national average

Country of the UK

England

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

1

2.8 national average

Public opinion

Do you think immigration has generally enriched or undermined society?

This area National average
Enriched 38.6% 37.2%
Neither 12.2% 12.5%
Undermined 49.2% 47.3%

Should the welfare system be expanded to help more people, or reduced to make benefits harder to get?

This area National average
Expanded 39.3% 34.1%
Neither 10.4% 11.5%
Reduced 50.2% 51.5%

Would you be comfortable paying more tax, if it meant more money were invested in public services like the NHS and education?

This area National average
Comfortable 41.6% 44.3%
Neither 6.7% 6.0%
Uncomfortable 51.7% 46.8%

Would you be comfortable with government debt going up, provided that money were invested in the economy and local services?

This area National average
Comfortable 49.0% 52.5%
Neither 8.2% 7.6%
Uncomfortable 42.8% 37.0%

Would you support or oppose the building of new housing in your area?

This area National average
Neither 22.0% 21.1%
Oppose 16.4% 17.8%
Support 61.7% 58.2%

Second placed party at most recent election

Conservative Party

Loss of nature and destruction of the environment should be one of the most important concerns for the country

This area National average
Net agree 69.4% 72.6%
Net disagree 8.2% 8.7%
Strongly agree 31.6% 33.8%
Partly agree 37.9% 38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree 22.5% 18.7%
Partly disagree 5.8% 5.9%
Strongly disagree 3% 2.7%

Policies for tackling the cost of living crisis should go hand in hand with policies to tackle the climate crisis

This area National average
Net agree 56.4% 58.9%
Net disagree 17% 17.6%
Strongly agree 23.7% 24.2%
Somewhat agree 32.9% 34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 26.5% 23.4%
Somewhat disagree 10.1% 10.5%
Strongly disagree 7% 7.1%

Tackling climate change should / should not be one of the Government’s biggest priorities right now

This area National average
Should be a priority 55.4% 57.5%
Should not be a priority 44.6% 42.5%

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

27%

26.2% national average

Believe that the government should continue the block on onshore wind development

29.8%

24.3% national average

Believe that the government should use wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills

83.1%

84.3% national average

Believe the government has increased investment in renewables over the past 5 years

53.3%

52.0% national average

Movement

Churches that have declared a climate emergency

0

0.2 national average

Number of RSPB Reserves

0

0.3 national average

Number of Save the Children shops

0

0.2 national average

Number of Wildlife Trusts Reserves

0

2.4 national average

Number of Women’s Institute groups