Trafford

9°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 6° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:31

9h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Salford Eccles, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

188 reported road collisions (2025)

54 killed or seriously injured · 235 casualties · 8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 415 rated 4–5 ★ (355 top)
• 25 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Navigation Road (2.5 km)
• 46 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£393,897 average▲ 6.4% YoY

Across Trafford · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,369 average monthly rent▲ 2.5% YoY

• 1 bed £944
• 2 bed £1,202
• 3 bed £1,483

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

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (10.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,839 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: 156.9p · Esso (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.7p · Asda (5.7 km)

23 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

72 charging locations within ~8 km

• 17 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Toyota Altrincham (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms5
• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches59
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds19

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

235,052 residents in Trafford · 2,217/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK16,132
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK15,309
• Net moves+823

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 223 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,292 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 104,310)

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

102 schools · 44,496 pupils

62 primary · 19 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 38 of 43 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Trafford

262 CQC-registered services

• Care homes56
• GP practices50
• Dentists71
• Homecare agencies64
• Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 5 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Trafford

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

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

322 applications decided

83.5% granted · 269 granted, 53 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Mr Connor Rand

Labour

Altrincham and Sale West

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 35
• Con 12
• LD 7
• Grn 7
• Ref 1
• Oth 1

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

• Schools17
• GPs & clinics5
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens26
• Restaurants & cafés37

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

13,580 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

201 jobs advertised · £42,261 avg

e.g. Discipline Head - Mechanical Design, Teaching Assistant, Assistant Manager

Source: Adzuna

£869 median full-time weekly pay

3.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£29,384 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 104,226 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

73% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 37% · Wind 34% · Gas 18% · Imports 9%

73 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.2 women · 63.8 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

15 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in M33

• Boundary House Medical Centre
• Washway Road Medical Centre
• Bodmin Road Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Altrincham and Sale West:

• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 322 local signatures · 11,425 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth189 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND169 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills168 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Ensure fair and transparent faith security funding for all faith communities155 local signatures · 20,440 nationwide

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

• Ashton-on-Mersey School · 0.7 km

  Ashton-on-Mersey School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Ashton upon Mersey, Greater Manchester, England. The school was formed in 1981 through the amalgamation of separate boys’ and girls’…

• Woodheys Park · 0.9 km

  Woodheys Park, also known as Pinky Park, is a park which is located at Kenmore Road, off Woodhouse Lane in Sale, Greater Manchester with an entrance on Link Road. The park is approximately 7.5 hectares in size and is…

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  Trafford Rowing Club · 1.4 km

  Trafford Rowing Club is a rowing club on the Bridgewater Canal, based at Walton Park Sports Centre, Raglan Road, Sale, Greater Manchester.

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  Brooklands tram stop · 1.6 km

  Brooklands is a tram stop and park and ride site on the Altrincham Line of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system in the Brooklands area of Sale. It opened on 15 June 1992 as part of Phase 1 of Metrolink's e…

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  West Timperley railway station · 1.6 km

  West Timperley railway station was situated on the Glazebrook East Junction–Skelton Junction line of the Cheshire Lines Committee between Glazebrook and Stockport Tiviot Dale. It served the locality between 1873 and 1…

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  Trafford Training Centre · 1.7 km

  Trafford Training Centre is the training ground and academy headquarters of English football club Manchester United. It is near the village of Carrington, Greater Manchester, England, and replaced The Cliff as the clu…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)