Shipley (Amber Valley)

11°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 7° · 57% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:29

9h 20m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

59 reported · August 2026▲ 79% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences22
• Anti-social behaviour8
• Public order8
• Criminal damage & arson6

2 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)

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)

323 food businesses within 2 miles

• 267 rated 4–5 ★ (238 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

£232,141 average▲ 2.7% YoY

Across Amber Valley · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£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

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

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

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

17 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)

• 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

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

£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

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)

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

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

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

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

144 applications decided

98.6% granted · 142 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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)

5,290 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£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

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

Healthy life expectancy (Derbyshire): 60.5 women · 60.5 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

4 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in DE75

• Park Surgery
• Kelvingrove Medical Centre
• Royal Primary Care Brooklyn

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Amber Valley:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills3,919 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND191 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth177 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK162 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Fund second stem cell transplants on NHS for relapse within 12 months138 local signatures · 30,826 nationwide

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

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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)