Clay Cross

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• Today: 13° / 5° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 4° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:36

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

72US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

• 7.0 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

115 reported · August 2026▲ 17% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences52
• Anti-social behaviour17
• Shoplifting12
• Criminal damage & arson10

6 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Clay Cross · Derbyshire

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

158 reported road collisions (2025)

40 killed or seriously injured · 211 casualties · 15.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

141 food businesses within 2 miles

• 125 rated 4–5 ★ (109 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

£253,012 average▲ 5.3% YoY

Across North East Derbyshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£791 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £569
• 2 bed £723
• 3 bed £878

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

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

1,368 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: 157.9p · Esso (9.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (9.8 km)

9 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,852
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,194
• Net moves+1,658

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 158 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

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

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

689 CQC-registered services

• Care homes245
• GP practices111
• Dentists139
• Homecare agencies147
• 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)

119 applications decided

87.4% granted · 104 granted, 15 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Louise Sandher-Jones

Labour

North East Derbyshire

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

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

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés29

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,875 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

42 jobs advertised · £36,112 avg

e.g. SEND Teacher, Assembly Technician, Traffic Marshall

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

32% low-carbon electricity

Gas 65% · Biomass 28% · Imports 3% · Nuclear 3%

289 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Derbyshire): 60.5 women · 60.5 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

4 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in S45

• Royal Primary Care Clay Cross
• Clay Cross Medical Centre
• Matlock And Ashover Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Derbyshire:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills452 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Make carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in all holiday accommodation351 local signatures · 23,659 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK176 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth169 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND163 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

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

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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…

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