Birchills
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| Birchills | |
|---|---|
| Suburb and ward | |
,_55_Old_Birchills,_Walsall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2802448.jpg) The Rose and Crown Pub, Old Birchills, Walsall | |
  Birchills Location within the West Midlands | |
| Population | 16,024 (2021 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SP004993 |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WALSALL |
| Postcode district | WS2 |
| Dialling code | 01922 |
| Police | West Midlands |
| Fire | West Midlands |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Birchills is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. The appropriate Walsall ward is Birchills Leamore. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 14,775.[2]
It is situated several hundred yards west of the town centre and is an established area containing many different housing types, though Victorian/Edwardian terraced houses and inter-war council houses are the most frequent type.
Amenities
Reedswood Park is located in Birchills, as is Pouk Hill - a hill which inspired a 1970s Slade song.
Demographics
At the 2021 census, the ward profile population was 16,024 which includes the nearby suburb of Leamore. Of the findings, the ethnicity and religious composition of the ward was:
| Birchills Leamore: Ethnicity: 2021 Census | |||||||||||||
| Ethnic group | Population | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 11,444 | 71.4% | |||||||||||
| Asian or Asian British | 2,631 | 16.4% | |||||||||||
| Black or Black British | 1,138 | 7.1% | |||||||||||
| Mixed | 543 | 3.4% | |||||||||||
| Other Ethnic Group | 251 | 1.6% | |||||||||||
| Arab | 18 | 0.4% | |||||||||||
| Total | 16,024 | 100% | |||||||||||
The religious composition of the ward at the 2021 Census was recorded as:
| Birchills Leamore: Religion: 2021 Census | |||||||||||||
| Religious | Population | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian | 6,918 | 45.5% | |||||||||||
| Irreligious | 5,488 | 36.1% | |||||||||||
| Muslim | 2,102 | 13.8% | |||||||||||
| Sikh | 421 | 2.8% | |||||||||||
| Hindu | 144 | 0.9% | |||||||||||
| Other religion | 92 | 0.6% | |||||||||||
| Buddhist | 32 | 0.4% | |||||||||||
| Jewish | 6 | 0.2% | |||||||||||
| Total | 16,024 | 100% | |||||||||||
Transportation
Birchills formerly was served by Birchills railway station which was on the Chase Line but closed in the 1930s.
