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High Peak

High Peak is a town or village in Derbyshire, England. It has the nearest railway station at Chinley, 2.3 km away. There were around 1 recorded street crime in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. Covers 21 towns with local open-data for the whole authority.

On deprivation, High Peak is around the average in England (IoD2025). It is home to around 90,933 residents at roughly 169 people per km².

65/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 40th of 294 English council areas — better than 86% of them.

Low crime69
Home affordability56
Affordable rents56
Good schools95
Life expectancy45
Low deprivation56
Employment74
Low council tax63

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 9° / 6° · 25% rain
  • Tomorrow: 9° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:28

9h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Salford Eccles, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

143 reported road collisions (2025)

50 killed or seriously injured · 186 casualties · 15.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

43 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 41 rated 4–5 ★ (37 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Chinley (2.3 km)
  • 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Chinley (2.2 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£265,635 average▲ 6.4% YoY

Across High Peak · to 2026-08

Detached£454,305
Semi-detached£291,190
Terraced£225,040
Flat£151,108

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£937 average monthly rent▲ 7.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £625
  • 2 bed £811
  • 3 bed £991

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

7.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.9 times median annual pay (7.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,307 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (7.4 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (7.4 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

5 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Cracken' View Studio, The Old Hall Inn (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

90,933 residents in High Peak · 169/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,394
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,237
  • Net moves+157

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 167 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,385 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (30% of 43,880)

A £1,590
B £1,855
C £2,120
D £2,385
E £2,915
F £3,445
G £3,974
H £4,769

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

Schools

57 schools · 10,747 pupils

43 primary · 7 secondary · 7 other

Ofsted: 22 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Glossopdale School and Sixth FormGood
  • Hope Valley CollegeGood
  • St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary AcademyGood
  • Buxton Community School
  • Chapel-en-le-Frith High School
  • New Mills School
  • St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · High Peak

Care & health services

689 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes245
  • GP practices111
  • Dentists139
  • Homecare agencies147
  • Hospitals & hospices18

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

Source: Care Quality Commission · Derbyshire

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

78 applications decided

87.2% granted · 68 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 25
  • Con 9
  • LD 1
  • Grn 2
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,425 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

90 jobs advertised · £33,820 avg

e.g. Part Time School Transport Driver, Trainee Driving Instructor - New Mills, Derbyshire, England, Activities Coordinator

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£738 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,328 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 40,311 certificates

12.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 80.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Derbyshire): 60.5 women · 60.5 men

56% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.9
  • Feeling worthwhile8.3
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in High Peak:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • South Head (Peak District) · 0.9 km

    South Head is a gritstone hill between the villages of Hayfield and Chinley in the Derbyshire Peak District. The summit is 494 metres (1,621 ft) above sea level. It lies at the south of the head of the River Sett.

  • Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside · 1.2 km

    Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside is a civil parish within the High Peak district, which is in the county of Derbyshire, England. Partially rural with several villages contained within, its population was 2,794 resident…

  • Mount Famine · 1.2 km

    Mount Famine is a gritstone hill between the villages of Hayfield and Chinley in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. The summit is 473 metres (1,552 ft) above sea level. The hill's name originates from the period o…

  • New Smithy · 1.3 km

    New Smithy is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, Derbyshire, England, near the village of Chinley. It sits on the A624 trunk road from Glossop to Chapel-en-le-Frith featuring a TOTSO wher…

  • Wash, Derbyshire · 1.6 km

    Wash, or The Wash, is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. The hamlet falls within the civil parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith. It is about 1.2 km north of Chapel-en-le-Frith and within the boundaries of the Peak District Nati…

  • Chapel Milton Viaduct · 1.8 km

    Chapel Milton Viaduct is a Grade II listed bifurcated railway viaduct on the Great Rocks Line at its junction with the Hope Valley Line, straddling the Black Brook valley in Chapel Milton, Derbyshire, England. The fir…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)