Billinge

15°CMist

• Today: 20° / 15° · 53% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 15° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:34

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wigan Centre, United Kingdom

28 reported · July 2026▲ 65% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences10
• Public order9
• Criminal damage & arson4
• Anti-social behaviour3

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Billinge and Seneley Green · Merseyside

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

275 reported road collisions (2024)

109 killed or seriously injured · 337 casualties · 8.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

82 food businesses within 2 miles

• 70 rated 4–5 ★ (59 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Garswood (2.6 km)
• 20 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£195,557 average▲ 6.6% YoY

Across Wigan · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£745 average monthly rent▲ 6.9% YoY

• 1 bed £541
• 2 bed £698
• 3 bed £836

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

5.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.9 times median annual pay (5.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (9.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 181.9p · Morrisons (11.7 km)

26 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

56 charging locations within ~8 km

• 17 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Atg Access LTD (3.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches10
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

329,330 residents in Wigan · 1,750/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 97 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

16% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,153 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (45% of 153,530)

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

144 schools · 48,372 pupils

99 primary · 19 secondary · 26 other

Ofsted: 51 of 53 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

127inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wigan

257 CQC-registered services

• Care homes59
• GP practices62
• Dentists57
• Homecare agencies45
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 97% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wigan

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

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

173 applications decided

76.3% granted · 132 granted, 41 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

David Baines

Labour

St Helens North

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 42
• Ref 25
• Oth 8

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,775 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

15 jobs advertised · £41,689 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, HVAC/Gas Multi Skilled Engineer, Sports Coach - Kids Planet Billinge

Source: Adzuna

£727 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,587 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 148,093 certificates

11.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

90% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 49% · Wind 31% · Biomass 11% · Gas 5%

34 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 81.9 yrs women · 77.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 55.1 women · 54.6 men

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

5 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in WN5

• Billinge Medical Practice
• Bradshaw Medical Centre
• Pemberton Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in St Helens North:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership530 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office488 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s317 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test312 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 267 local signatures · 10,809 nationwide

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

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  St Aidan's Church, Billinge · 0.4 km

  St Aidan's Church is in Main Street, Billinge, St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. It was built in 1716–18 to replace a chapel of ease on the site, and w…

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  Billinge, Merseyside · 0.6 km

  Billinge is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It forms the larger part of the civil parish of Billinge Chapel End.

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  Birchley Hall · 0.8 km

  Birchley Hall is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan house built in about 1594, in Billinge, Merseyside, England.

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  St Mary's Church, Billinge · 1.0 km

  St Mary's Church is an active Roman Catholic church along Birchley Road, Billinge, St Helens, Merseyside, England. Belonging to the archdiocese of Liverpool, the church was built in 1828, and extended later in that ce…

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  Billinge Hill · 1.2 km

  Billinge Hill is in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in North West England. With a maximum elevation of 179 m (587 ft), it is the highest point of Merseyside. It lies in Billinge, within the historic county bound…

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  St Helens North · 1.4 km

  St. Helens North is a constituency created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by the Labour Party's David Baines since 2024.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)