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Tunstead

Tunstead is a town or village in Derbyshire, England, with the nearest railway station at Buxton, 4 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Tunstead area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the High Peak area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 90,933 residents at roughly 169 people per km².

Council
High Peak
County
Derbyshire
Constituency
High Peak
Police force
Derbyshire
65/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 40th of 294 English council areas — better than 86% of them.

Low crime69
Home affordability56
Affordable rents56
Good schools95
Life expectancy45
Low deprivation56
Employment74
Low council tax63

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

7°CCloudy

  • Today: 11° / 5° · 23% rain
  • Tomorrow: 9° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:05Sunset 16:35

9h 30m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Sheffield Devonshire Green, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

143 reported road collisions (2025)

50 killed or seriously injured · 186 casualties · 15.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

21 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 19 rated 4–5 ★ (18 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Buxton (4.0 km)
  • 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Buxton (4.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£265,635 average▲ 6.4% YoY

Across High Peak · to 2026-08

Detached£454,305
Semi-detached£291,190
Terraced£225,040
Flat£151,108

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£937 average monthly rent▲ 7.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £625
  • 2 bed £811
  • 3 bed £991

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

Affordability

7.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.9 times median annual pay (7.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,307 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: 175.9p · ESSO (4.2 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · ESSO (4.2 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

9 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Nestlé Waters UK LTD (2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Population

90,933 residents in High Peak · 169/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,394
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,237
  • Net moves+157

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

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 167 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,385 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (30% of 43,880)

A £1,590
B £1,855
C £2,120
D £2,385
E £2,915
F £3,445
G £3,974
H £4,769

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

Schools

57 schools · 10,747 pupils

43 primary · 7 secondary · 7 other

Ofsted: 22 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Glossopdale School and Sixth FormGood
  • Hope Valley CollegeGood
  • St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary AcademyGood
  • Buxton Community School
  • Chapel-en-le-Frith High School
  • New Mills School
  • St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · High Peak

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

Planning decisions

78 applications decided

87.2% granted · 68 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 25
  • Con 9
  • LD 1
  • Grn 2
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

4,425 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Static Groundstaff - Tunstead

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£738 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,328 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 40,311 certificates

12.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 80.3 yrs men

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

56% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.9
  • Feeling worthwhile8.3
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

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

Health services

4 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in SK17

  • Stewart Medical Centre
  • Buxton Medical Practice
  • Elmwood Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in High Peak:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Great Rocks Dale · 0.3 km

    Great Rocks Dale is a dry valley in the Derbyshire Peak District, known for its extensive quarrying.

  • Tunstead, Derbyshire · 1.2 km

    Tunstead is a village in Derbyshire, England, situated above Great Rocks Dale north of Buxton. It should not be confused with Tunstead Milton, which is roughly five miles to the north west. It is in the civil parish o…

  • Green Fairfield · 1.7 km

    Green Fairfield. is a civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 100. It is located in the Peak District, 4 miles east of Buxton and north of the parish of King Sterndale. Woo Dale lie…

  • Wye Valley, Derbyshire · 2.0 km

    The Wye Valley is the limestone valley of the River Wye in the White Peak of Derbyshire, England. The source of the River Wye is west of Buxton on Axe Edge Moor. One main channel runs underground through Poole's Caver…

  • Hargate Wall · 2.1 km

    Hargate Wall is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wormhill, in the High Peak district, in Derbyshire, England, situated northeast of Buxton.

  • Chee Dale Halt railway station · 2.2 km

    Chee Dale Halt railway station was a timber-built railway halt located on the Peak Forest Junction to Buxton Junction spur of a triangle of the former Midland Railway lines at Blackwell Mill. The halt was opened on 5…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Tunstead?
Tunstead is a town in Derbyshire, England, in the High Peak local authority.
How deprived is Tunstead?
The High Peak local authority, which includes Tunstead, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.