27. Bromsgrove
The history of Bromsgrove goes back over 1000 years. It’s main industries have ranged from farming, to cloth making, to nail and metal working. The Bromsgrove Guild’s most famous works being the gates of Buckingham Palace and the Liver birds in Liverpool. Today the town supports a large number of medium sized industries and well as financial, technology and other service organisations. "Finance and insurance" is the biggest sector with 16.1% of employees in this category.
Bromsgrove District has a population of around 100,000 and the town a population of around 35,000.
Between 2011 and 2021, the average (median) age of Bromsgrove residents increased by one year, from 44 to 45 years of age. Only 15% of the town is aged between 20 and 34. Half the population is between 35 and 64.
One in ten people live in social rented housing. 77% own their own home.
In 2024, 2.8% of 16 to 64 year-olds were unemployed. 85.9% were employed. 2.5% were receiving benefits and 14.1% were “economically inactive”.
93% of residents were born in England; Wales and Scotland were the next biggest countries of birth.
In the 2021 census, 53.5% said they were Christian. 37.4% said “no religion”. Other religions made up less than 3.5%.
6.1% say they are “disabled and limited a lot”.
9.5% say they are “disabled and limited a little”.
93.1% identify as white. 3.2% of the town identify as having an Asian ethnicity. 2.4% mixed. 0.8% black.
27% of households contain one person. 17% a couple without children. 20% a couple with children. 7.6% of households contain a couple with grown up children.
54.5% are married or in a civil partnership. 9% are divorced.
52.2% of Bromsgrove residents described their health as "very good". Less than 4% described their health as bad or very bad.
The average salary in Bromsgrove is £30,124 per year. Men earn 9.5% more than women. The average property price in Bromsgrove is £329,908.
Pray for the people you know in this town and the people in the statistics above that you don’t.
‘…seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.’
Jeremiah 29:7
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