Clay Cross

15°CMist

• Today: 20° / 15° · 58% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:34Sunset 19:28

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

130 reported · July 2026▼ 17% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences66
• Anti-social behaviour22
• Public order11
• Other theft9

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Clay Cross · Derbyshire

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

157 reported road collisions (2024)

59 killed or seriously injured · 221 casualties · 15.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

142 food businesses within 2 miles

• 125 rated 4–5 ★ (107 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Alfreton (7.8 km)
• 51 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£250,387 average▲ 10.6% YoY

Across North East Derbyshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£787 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £566
• 2 bed £718
• 3 bed £873

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

7.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.0 times median annual pay (6.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (9.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.7p · Asda (11 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

20 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Extra-Clay Cross (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches17
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

101,999 residents in North East Derbyshire · 370/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 177 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,467 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (39% of 49,100)

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

51 schools · 12,891 pupils

46 primary · 3 secondary · 2 other

Ofsted: 15 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (71%)

49inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · North East Derbyshire

695 CQC-registered services

• Care homes245
• GP practices111
• Dentists139
• Homecare agencies152
• Hospitals & hospices18

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

Source: Care Quality Commission · Derbyshire

• In a conservation area (Clay Cross)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 14 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

131 applications decided

90.1% granted · 118 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Louise Sandher-Jones

Labour

North East Derbyshire

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 26
• Con 14
• Grn 1
• Ref 5
• Oth 6

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés28

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,810 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

26 jobs advertised · £36,491 avg

e.g. Parts Branch Sales Manager, Temporary Delivery Driver - Chesterfield, Customer Delivery Driver - Clay Cross Extra

Source: Adzuna

£741 median full-time weekly pay

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

£23,905 disposable income per head (2024)

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

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 49,377 certificates

11.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

51% low-carbon electricity

Gas 44% · Biomass 37% · Wind 13% · Imports 5%

217 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Derbyshire:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills450 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office362 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in all holiday accommodation346 local signatures · 22,957 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s309 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership306 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide

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

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  Clay Cross Urban District · 0.3 km

  Clay Cross was an urban district in Derbyshire, England, from 1894 to 1974. The urban district was created to replace the Clay Cross local board district that had been established in 1875. The district expanded in 193…

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  Clay Cross · 0.3 km

  Clay Cross is a town and a civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Chesterfield. It is directly on the A61…

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  Clay Cross Tunnel · 0.4 km

  Clay Cross Tunnel is a 1,784 yards (1,631 m) tunnel on the Midland Main Line line near Clay Cross in Derbyshire, England. It was the most substantial single civil engineering feature present on the North Midland Railw…

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  St Bartholomew's Church, Clay Cross · 0.6 km

  St Bartholomew's Church, Clay Cross is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Clay Cross, Derbyshire.

• Clay Lane railway station · 0.7 km

  Clay Lane railway station was a small station on the Ashover Light Railway and it served the western area of Clay Cross in North East Derbyshire, England. The station had a wooden shelter and a telephone box. It was l…

• Springfield railway station (ALR) · 0.7 km

  Springfield railway station was a small station on the Ashover Light Railway and it served the western area of Clay Cross in North East Derbyshire, England. The station consisted of nothing more than a nameboard at a…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)