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Disley

Disley is a village in Cheshire, England, with a population of around 3,159. There is one GP or clinic, one pharmacy, and nine restaurants or cafés, along with 23 bus stops. The nearest railway station is Disley, 0.4 km away. In June 2026, there were around 9 recorded street crimes, most commonly public order. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Disley area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Cheshire East area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 398,772 residents at roughly 342 people per km².

Council
Cheshire East
County
Cheshire
Constituency
Macclesfield
Police force
Cheshire
62/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 65th of 294 English council areas — better than 78% of them.

Low crime72
Home affordability61
Affordable rents72
Good schools43
Life expectancy52
Low deprivation78
Employment78
Low council tax45

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°COvercast

  • Today: 9° / 5° · 27% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:34

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Manchester Piccadilly, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.4 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

12 reported · August 2026▲ 50% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences3
  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Other theft2
  • Burglary1

Neighbourhood team: Disley · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • Antisocial behaviour and drug taking at an address on Buxton Old Road, Disley.

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

Road safety

578 reported road collisions (2025)

170 killed or seriously injured · 696 casualties · 14.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

136 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 116 rated 4–5 ★ (101 top)
  • 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Disley (0.4 km)
  • 23 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Disley (0.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£311,897 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Cheshire East · to 2026-08

Detached£504,698
Semi-detached£299,120
Terraced£231,113
Flat£157,592

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£985 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £696
  • 2 bed £898
  • 3 bed £1,106

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

Affordability

7.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.6 times median annual pay (6.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

6,340 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: 156.9p · Esso (11.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (0.7 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

8 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 22 kW
  • Nearest: Disley Community Centre Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Sports pitches17
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

398,772 residents in Cheshire East · 342/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 60%
  • 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK21,219
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK16,144
  • Net moves+5,075

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 231 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,455 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (21% of 190,830)

A £1,637
B £1,909
C £2,182
D £2,455
E £3,000
F £3,546
G £4,091
H £4,910

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

Schools

182 schools · 59,906 pupils

125 primary · 23 secondary · 34 other

Ofsted: 61 of 70 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Alsager SchoolGood
  • Holmes Chapel Comprehensive SchoolGood
  • Malbank School and Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • Middlewich High SchoolGood
  • Sandbach High School and Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • The Fallibroome AcademyGood
  • The Oaks AcademyGood
  • The Macclesfield AcademyRequires improvement
  • All Hallows Catholic College
  • Brine Leas School
  • Cheshire Studio School
  • Congleton High School
  • Crewe Engineering and Design UTC
  • Eaton Bank Academy
  • Knutsford Academy
  • Poynton High School
  • Ruskin Community High School
  • Sandbach School
  • Shavington Academy
  • Sir William Stanier School
  • St Thomas More Catholic High School
  • Tytherington School
  • Wilmslow High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cheshire East

Care & health services

414 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes105
  • GP practices72
  • Dentists104
  • Homecare agencies94
  • Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cheshire East

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

553 applications decided

85.7% granted · 474 granted, 79 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Tim Roca

Labour

Macclesfield

Recent votes:

  • NoHighways (Financing) Bill: Second Reading: Reasoned Amendment
  • NoOpposition Day motion: Inheritance Tax
  • NoOpposition Day motion: MoD Bicester and illegal migrants
  • AyeCarbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (Calculation of CBAM Rate and Determination of Carbon Price Relief) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour / Independent coalition

  • Lab 28
  • Con 32
  • LD 1
  • Grn 1
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 19

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies1
  • Parks & greens7
  • Restaurants & cafés11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

22,390 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

281 jobs advertised · £42,160 avg

e.g. SEN / SEND Tutor, Manchester, Commercial Insurance Broker, Technical Manager

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£808 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£29,202 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 195,088 certificates

9.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

80% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 48% · Wind 24% · Imports 13% · Gas 7%

34 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 80.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66 women · 64.5 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Health services

0 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in SK12

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Macclesfield:

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

Notable places nearby

  • St Mary's Church, Disley · 0.2 km

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Chadkirk. It is on a hill overlooking the village of Disley, Cheshire, England. It is record…

  • Disley railway station · 0.4 km

    Disley railway station serves the village of Disley in Cheshire, England. It is sited 12+1⁄3 miles (19.8 km) south-east of Manchester Piccadilly on the Buxton Line. It was built by the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bri…

  • Gritstone Trail · 0.4 km

    The Gritstone Trail, or Cheshire Gritstone Trail, is a 35-mile (56 km) long-distance footpath in England which follows the most westerly hills of the Peak District from Disley Station to Mow Cop, and on via the Maccle…

  • Disley · 0.5 km

    Disley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. It is located on the edge of the Peak District in the Goyt Valley, south of Stockport and close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills. The popul…

  • Bollinhurst Reservoir · 1.1 km

    The Bollinhurst Reservoir was constructed in Lyme Park in 1872 for the Stockport District Waterworks Company. At the time of the First World War, it had a capacity of 84.46 million gallons.

  • Hague Bar · 1.3 km

    Hague Bar is a hamlet in New Mills, Derbyshire, near Marple and Stockport. The Manchester to Sheffield railway passes through the Goyt valley at this point. Its population is included in the figures shown for New Mill…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Disley?
Disley is a town in Cheshire, England, in the Cheshire East local authority.
What is the population of Disley?
Disley has an approximate settlement population of 3,159.
How deprived is Disley?
The Cheshire East local authority, which includes Disley, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.