Bolsover

15°COvercast

• Today: 21° / 15° · 46% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:30

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

6 reported · July 2026▲ 200% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Robbery1

Neighbourhood team: Scarcliffe · Derbyshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

142 reported road collisions (2024)

32 killed or seriously injured · 195 casualties · 17.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

75 food businesses within 2 miles

• 63 rated 4–5 ★ (54 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Shirebrook (5.3 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£188,025 average▲ 6.6% YoY

Across Bolsover · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£710 average monthly rent▲ 5.5% YoY

• 1 bed £500
• 2 bed £648
• 3 bed £751

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

5.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.0 times median annual pay (5.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 162.9p · Morrisons (8.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · Morrisons (8.7 km)

16 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

10 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 100 kW
• Nearest: Middle Street Car Park, Bolsover (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

80,273 residents in Bolsover · 501/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 58 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,559 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (58% of 38,920)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

43 schools · 10,888 pupils

33 primary · 5 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 19 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (90%)

41inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bolsover

695 CQC-registered services

• Care homes245
• GP practices111
• Dentists139
• Homecare agencies152
• Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Derbyshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 5 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

57 applications decided

96.5% granted · 55 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour majority

• Lab 22
• Con 1
• Ref 2
• Oth 12

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

2,565 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

31 jobs advertised · £28,287 avg

e.g. Cover Supervisor, Class 1 Driver, Become a Psychology Tutor in Bolsover – Flexible & Remote

Source: Adzuna

£679 median full-time weekly pay

2.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,224 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 43,191 certificates

13.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 82 yrs women · 79.2 yrs men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bolsover:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills799 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office404 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership376 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance339 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s311 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Bolsover Tunnel · 1.5 km

  Bolsover Tunnel is a disused and infilled twin-track railway tunnel between Carr Vale and Scarcliffe in Derbyshire, England.

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  St Leonard's Church, Scarcliffe · 1.6 km

  St Leonard's Church, Scarcliffe, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire.

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  Scarcliffe · 1.7 km

  Scarcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. It is sometimes called Scarcliffe with Palterton. The population of the parish at the 2001 UK Census was 5,211, increasing to 5…

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  Glapwell · 2.0 km

  Glapwell is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. The village is at the top of a steep hill at an elevation of 176m, on the western edge of the Southern Magnesian Limestone, overl…

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  Scarcliffe railway station · 2.1 km

  Scarcliffe railway station is a former railway station in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire, England.

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  Stony Houghton · 2.1 km

  Stony Houghton is a hamlet near Glapwell, part of the parish of Pleasley in Derbyshire, England, close to New Houghton. It is a very quiet area consisting of only a few residential properties amidst farmland and farms…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)