Telford and Wrekin

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• Today: 21° / 10° · 34% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:34

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

45US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stoke-on-Trent Centre, United Kingdom

88 reported · July 2026▼ 11% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences49
• Anti-social behaviour16
• Criminal damage & arson6
• Other theft5

3 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Hadley and Leegomery · West Mercia

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

129 reported road collisions (2024)

39 killed or seriously injured · 161 casualties · 7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

329 food businesses within 2 miles

• 277 rated 4–5 ★ (239 top)
• 21 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Wellington (2.7 km)
• 7 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£220,519 average▲ 1.3% YoY

Across Telford and Wrekin · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£861 average monthly rent▲ 7.1% YoY

• 1 bed £600
• 2 bed £771
• 3 bed £954

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

6.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.3 times median annual pay (6.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 159.9p · Esso (0.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (2.9 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

25 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Fallow Field (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches18
• Playgrounds13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

185,544 residents in Telford and Wrekin · 639/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 99 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

17% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,256 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (32% of 84,460)

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

86 schools · 32,089 pupils

56 primary · 12 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 24 of 35 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (69%)

77inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Telford and Wrekin

172 CQC-registered services

• Care homes40
• GP practices17
• Dentists31
• Homecare agencies69
• Hospitals & hospices2

CQC ratings: 75% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Telford and Wrekin

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

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

124 applications decided

90.3% granted · 112 granted, 12 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour majority

• Lab 37
• Con 8
• LD 6
• Oth 3

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

• Schools9
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens9
• Restaurants & cafés6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,130 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

6 jobs advertised · £31,824 avg

e.g. Online Geography Tutor - Part Time, Online Maths Tutor - Part Time, Online Computer science Tutoring Job in Wrekin – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£693 median full-time weekly pay

3.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,346 disposable income per head (2024)

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

57% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 91,854 certificates

14.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 55.4 women · 56.7 men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in The Wrekin:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office439 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership368 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s330 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test258 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership240 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Hadley and Leegomery · 0.7 km

  Hadley and Leegomery, formerly just Hadley is a civil parish in Telford and Wrekin unitary authority area, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It includes the villages of Hadley, Leegomery and Horton, all…

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  Hadley railway station · 1.0 km

  Hadley railway station was a railway station serving the village of Hadley in Shropshire, England. The station served both the former Stafford to Shrewsbury Line and was the start of the branch to Coalport. The statio…

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  Hadley, Shropshire · 1.1 km

  Hadley is a village in the civil parish of Hadley and Leegomery in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. It neighbours the village of Leegomery.

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  Trench Crossing railway station · 1.2 km

  Trench Crossing railway station was a station in Trench, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1854 and closed in 1964.

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  Hadley Learning Community · 1.4 km

  Hadley Learning Community (HLC) is a coeducational all-through school, for students from 3 – 16 years of age, located in the village of Hadley in Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England

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  Leegomery · 1.4 km

  Leegomery is a village in the Telford and Wrekin borough in Shropshire, England. It forms part of the Hadley and Leegomery civil parish alongside Hadley, Apley Castle, Hadley Castle, Hadley Manor, Hoo and Horton.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)