Stanley (County Durham)

13°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 13° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:28

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newcastle Centre, United Kingdom

342 reported · July 2026▲ 43% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences97
• Anti-social behaviour83
• Shoplifting61
• Criminal damage & arson27

7 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Stanley (South Stanley and South Moor) · Durham

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

452 reported road collisions (2024)

180 killed or seriously injured · 584 casualties · 8.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

146 food businesses within 2 miles

• 108 rated 4–5 ★ (69 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: East Tanfield (2.2 km)
• 75 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£138,148 average▲ 7% YoY

Across County Durham · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£645 average monthly rent▲ 6% YoY

• 1 bed £453
• 2 bed £574
• 3 bed £688

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

4.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.3 times median annual pay (3.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Esso (3.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · Morrisons (9.5 km)

16 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

35 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Agnes Street Retail Park (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches32
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

522,068 residents in County Durham · 234/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 65 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,622 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (56% of 255,650)

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

280 schools · 73,802 pupils

208 primary · 30 secondary · 42 other

Ofsted: 99 of 116 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

259inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · County Durham

415 CQC-registered services

• Care homes146
• GP practices73
• Dentists87
• Homecare agencies65
• Hospitals & hospices13

CQC ratings: 95% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · County Durham

• Not in the Green Belt
• 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

393 applications decided

93.1% granted · 366 granted, 27 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Luke Akehurst

Labour

North Durham

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 5
• Con 1
• LD 15
• Grn 2
• Ref 55
• Oth 20

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

• Schools11
• GPs & clinics5
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés24

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,810 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

124 jobs advertised · £33,008 avg

e.g. School Chef, Be Your Own Boss - Deliver with Uber Eats, Packaging Development Manager

Source: Adzuna

£661 median full-time weekly pay

3.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,261 disposable income per head (2024)

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

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 307,169 certificates

11.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

55% low-carbon electricity

Imports 45% · Wind 24% · Nuclear 20% · Biomass 10%

14 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 78.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 55.4 women · 55.9 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North Durham:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases427 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office378 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership322 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s320 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance287 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

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  Stanley, County Durham · 0.2 km

  Stanley is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. Centred on a hilltop between Chester-le-Street and Consett, it lies south-west of Gateshead. The town's name is derived from the Old English stān and lēah,…

• North Durham Academy · 0.3 km

  North Durham Academy is a secondary school with academy status based in Stanley in County Durham, England.

• South Stanley · 0.4 km

  South Stanley is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated immediately to the south of Stanley.

• West Stanley Pit disasters · 0.7 km

  The West Stanley Pit disasters refers to two explosions in 1882 and 1909 at the West Stanley colliery, a coal mine near Stanley in County Durham, England. The mine opened in 1832 and closed in 1936. Several seams were…

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  Oxhill, County Durham · 0.9 km

  Oxhill is a small village in the civil parish of Stanley, in County Durham, England. It is located to the west of Stanley, on the bottom of the hill which leads up to New Kyo and Annfield Plain to its east. Down the h…

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  West Stanley railway station · 1.0 km

  West Stanley railway station served the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England, on the North Eastern Railway between 1894 and 1955.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)