A modern rug industry was founded around the area in 1785 by Brintons, and a carpeting industry became super significant to a local economy, such therefore that a local newspaper is however known as the Kidderminster Shuttle after the shuttles utilized on the carpet looms. Although tremendously declined inside recent years, the industry is however a important employer in the area, using Brintons however using many one c population.

Kidderminster stands on the junction of the River Stour and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. A preserved Severn Valley Railway runs from a town to Bridgnorth.

Kidderminster was a birthplace of Lant Carpenter, Josiah Mason, and Rowland Hill. A Puritan minister Richard Baxter spent many years in a town, & there is a statue to him outside the church at which he was depending.

These are notable that in the United Kingdom general election, 2001, the town returned Dr Richard Taylor as an independent MP for the Wyre Forest parliamentary constituency. Exclusively the handful of independent MPs stand been elected since World War II and Taylor had fought the election to protest against a projected reduction inside services at a Kidderminster hospital. He held his seat at a 2005 election, the first independent MP to clean soh since 1949.

Kidderminster Harriers F.C. is the town's football club, the first in the county's history to reach Football League status; however they were relegated to the Conference National after the 2004-05 season.