Shipley (Amber Valley)

16°CMist

• Today: 22° / 15° · 71% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:30

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

65 reported · July 2026▲ 67% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences24
• Anti-social behaviour15
• Public order6
• Burglary4

1 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Shipley, Smalley, Mapperley, Horsley and Horlsey Woodhouse · Derbyshire

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

168 reported road collisions (2024)

58 killed or seriously injured · 206 casualties · 13.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

325 food businesses within 2 miles

• 266 rated 4–5 ★ (237 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Langley Mill (2.8 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£237,857 average▲ 7.9% YoY

Across Amber Valley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£794 average monthly rent▲ 3.1% YoY

• 1 bed £580
• 2 bed £737
• 3 bed £908

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (3.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (3.2 km)

31 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

26 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 240 kW
• Nearest: Ilkeston Community Hospital (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

126,206 residents in Amber Valley · 476/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 167 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,408 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

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

73 schools · 18,472 pupils

57 primary · 8 secondary · 8 other

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

70inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

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

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

• Within the Green Belt
• 15 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

137 applications decided

97.8% granted · 134 granted, 3 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour (minority)

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

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

• Schools3
• Parks & greens17
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,260 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£743 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% 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

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

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Amber Valley:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills3,915 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership398 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance370 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office355 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s282 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  The American Adventure Theme Park · 0.2 km

  The American Adventure was a theme park in Derbyshire, England. For many years, the park had a number of large white-knuckle attractions, before being rethemed as a 'family' park aimed at the under-14 market in 2005.…

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  Shipley, Derbyshire · 0.7 km

  Shipley is a village in the south-east of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. Since 1974 it has been part of the Borough of Amber Valley. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 710.

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  Marlpool railway station · 0.9 km

  Marlpool railway station is a former railway station that served the village of Marlpool in Derbyshire, England. It was opened on a branch line from Ilkeston to Heanor on the Great Northern Railway Derbyshire Extensio…

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  Shipley Hall · 1.0 km

  Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.

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  Ilkeston Community Hospital · 1.1 km

  Ilkeston Community Hospital is a healthcare facility at Heanor Road, Ilkeston in Derbyshire, England.

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  Shipley Gate railway station · 1.7 km

  Shipley Gate railway station served the village of Shipley, Derbyshire, England from 1851 to 1948 on the Erewash Valley Line.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)