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Ilkeston

Ilkeston is a town in Derbyshire, England, with a population of around 40,953. It has 1 pharmacy and around 1 restaurant and café, along with 25 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Langley Mill, 2.6 km away. The average sold house price is around £228,205, and there were around 237 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly Violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ilkeston area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Amber Valley area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 126,206 residents at roughly 476 people per km².

Council
Amber Valley
County
Derbyshire
Constituency
Amber Valley
Police force
Derbyshire
59/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 87th of 294 English council areas — better than 70% of them.

Low crime58
Home affordability75
Affordable rents87
Good schools53
Life expectancy35
Low deprivation54
Employment69
Low council tax58

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

9°CCloudy

  • Today: 10° / 6° · 55% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:06Sunset 16:30

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

292 reported · August 2026▲ 7% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences129
  • Anti-social behaviour51
  • Public order27
  • Shoplifting20

8 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Ilkeston Town · Derbyshire

Local policing priorities

  • 1 – Over night neighbourhood acquisitive crime 2 – Youth related ASB –occurring in public spaces and the Town Centre. 3 – Vehicle-related…

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

Road safety

196 reported road collisions (2025)

50 killed or seriously injured · 246 casualties · 15.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

294 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 250 rated 4–5 ★ (232 top)
  • 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Ilkeston (1.4 km)
  • 53 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Ilkeston (1.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£232,141 average▲ 2.7% YoY

Across Amber Valley · to 2026-08

Detached£335,368
Semi-detached£219,702
Terraced£174,717
Flat£135,362

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£799 average monthly rent▲ 4% YoY

  • 1 bed £584
  • 2 bed £741
  • 3 bed £914

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

Affordability

6.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.5 times median annual pay (6.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,912 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: 137.8p · AppleGreen (0.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (0.5 km)

18 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

43 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 22 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 360 kW
  • Nearest: Pimlico Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres4
  • Gyms7
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches37
  • Playgrounds17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

126,206 residents in Amber Valley · 476/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,039
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,050
  • Net moves+1,989

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

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 161 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,408 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (38% of 61,280)

A £1,605
B £1,873
C £2,140
D £2,408
E £2,943
F £3,478
G £4,013
H £4,815

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

Schools

72 schools · 18,391 pupils

56 primary · 8 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 25 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Heanor Gate Spencer AcademyOutstanding
  • David Nieper AcademyGood
  • Swanwick Hall SchoolGood
  • The Ecclesbourne SchoolGood
  • The Ripley AcademyGood
  • Aldercar High School
  • Belper School and Sixth Form Centre
  • John Flamsteed Community School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Amber Valley

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Ilkeston Town Centre)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 25 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

144 applications decided

98.6% granted · 142 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Adam Thompson

Labour

Erewash

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour (minority)

  • Lab 19
  • Con 7
  • LD 1
  • Grn 5
  • Ref 3
  • Oth 6

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools14
  • GPs & clinics6
  • Pharmacies7
  • Supermarkets6
  • Parks & greens30
  • Restaurants & cafés75

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,290 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

219 jobs advertised · £36,521 avg

e.g. Sales & Customer Service Advisor - No Experience Required, HGV 2 Driver, Diagnostic Vehicle Technician

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£743 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,016 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 60,703 certificates

11.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

80% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Biomass 32% · Gas 16% · Imports 4%

103 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Derbyshire): 60.5 women · 60.5 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.9
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Health services

9 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in DE7

  • Arthur Medical Centre
  • Old Station Surgery
  • South Street Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Erewash:

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

Notable places nearby

  • St Mary's Church, Ilkeston · 0.0 km

    St Mary's Church, Ilkeston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Built in the 14th century, it is known as the "Mollis Chapel" because of a stained glass window which sh…

  • Municipal Borough of Ilkeston · 0.0 km

    Ilkeston was a municipal borough in Derbyshire, England from 1887 to 1974. It was formed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882.

  • Ilkeston Town Hall · 0.0 km

    Ilkeston Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The town hall, which currently serves as one of two meeting places of Erewash Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

  • Ilkeston · 0.1 km

    Ilkeston is a town located in the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England, with a population of 40,953 at the 2021 census. Its major industries, coal mining, iron working and lace making/textiles, have now all but d…

  • Erewash Museum · 0.2 km

    The Erewash Museum is located in Ilkeston, Erewash, in Derbyshire, England. Housed in Dalby House, a building that once served as a school and private home.

  • Ilkeston Grammar School · 0.5 km

    Ilkeston Grammar School was a selective co-educational secondary school, admission being dependent on passing the 11-plus examination. It stood on King George Avenue, Ilkeston, in the south east of Derbyshire in the E…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Ilkeston?
Ilkeston is a town in Derbyshire, England, in the Amber Valley local authority.
What is the population of Ilkeston?
Ilkeston has an approximate settlement population of 40,953.
How deprived is Ilkeston?
The Amber Valley local authority, which includes Ilkeston, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.