Chesterfield

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• Today: 20° / 14° · 42% rain
• Tomorrow: 24° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:34Sunset 19:28

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Loundsley Green, United Kingdom

158 reported · July 2026▲ 21% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences69
• Anti-social behaviour25
• Other theft15
• Criminal damage & arson11

10 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Brimington · Derbyshire

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

133 reported road collisions (2024)

41 killed or seriously injured · 163 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 432 rated 4–5 ★ (386 top)
• 15 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Chesterfield (1.6 km)
• 21 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£199,439 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Chesterfield · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£754 average monthly rent▲ 2.4% YoY

• 1 bed £538
• 2 bed £692
• 3 bed £827

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

5.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.2 times median annual pay (5.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · BP (9.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 178.7p · Asda (10.8 km)

15 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

33 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Casa Hotel (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches11
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

103,569 residents in Chesterfield · 1,568/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 86 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,339 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (53% of 51,340)

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

52 schools · 15,624 pupils

36 primary · 8 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 20 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (95%)

47inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chesterfield

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
• 49 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

100 applications decided

90% granted · 90 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour majority

• Lab 27
• LD 11
• Ref 2

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics2
• Supermarkets7
• Parks & greens4
• Restaurants & cafés41

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,115 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1,201 jobs advertised · £37,948 avg

e.g. Roadside Vehicle Technician, Roadside Vehicle Mechanic, Area Manager, Customer Fulfillment

Source: Adzuna

£718 median full-time weekly pay

3.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,241 disposable income per head (2024)

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

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,094 certificates

12.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 80 yrs women · 77 yrs men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.3
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Chesterfield:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills495 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s359 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership357 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office281 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test259 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Tapton, Derbyshire · 0.4 km

  Tapton is a suburb of Chesterfield, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is located along the Brimington Road B6543, between Chesterfield town centre, and Brimington. It became a suburb of Chesterfield in the 1920…

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  Sheepbridge and Brimington railway station · 0.7 km

  Sheepbridge and Brimington railway station was on the outskirts of the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

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  Tapton House · 0.7 km

  Tapton House, in Tapton, Derbyshire, England, was once the home of engineer George Stephenson, who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. Tapton has been a gentleman's residence, a…

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  Chesterfield (constituency) · 0.8 km

  Chesterfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Toby Perkins of the Labour Party.

• Tinkersick · 0.8 km

  Tinkersick or Tinker Sick is a stream east of Chesterfield, near Brimington in Derbyshire. The stream is an offshoot of the Chesterfield Canal.

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  SMH Group Stadium · 1.0 km

  SMH Group Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on the site of the former Dema Glassworks. It is the home of Chesterfield Football Club, replacing Saltergate as the c…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)