Telford and Wrekin

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 10° / 5° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:32

9h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

• 6.2 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

95 reported · August 2026▲ 4% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences40
• Anti-social behaviour12
• Vehicle crime9
• Burglary8

7 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Hadley and Leegomery · West Mercia

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

150 reported road collisions (2025)

40 killed or seriously injured · 190 casualties · 8.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

331 food businesses within 2 miles

• 285 rated 4–5 ★ (244 top)
• 17 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

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

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£221,853 average▲ 1.2% YoY

Across Telford and Wrekin · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£861 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

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

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

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

2,244 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

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

6 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,584
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,777
• Net moves+1,807

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 95 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

13% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

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

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

170 CQC-registered services

• Care homes38
• GP practices17
• Dentists32
• Homecare agencies67
• Hospitals & hospices2

CQC ratings: 76% of rated services Good or Outstanding

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)

152 applications decided

93.4% granted · 142 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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)

7,200 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£693 median full-time weekly pay

4% 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:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills234 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK194 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth174 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND166 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks149 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

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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)