Glazebury

9°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 13° / 8° · 25% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:32

9h 17m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Glazebury, United Kingdom

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

9 reported · August 2026▼ 31% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences4
• Public order2
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Robbery1

Neighbourhood team: Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft · Cheshire

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

219 reported road collisions (2025)

91 killed or seriously injured · 275 casualties · 6.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

254 food businesses within 2 miles

• 177 rated 4–5 ★ (123 top)
• 22 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Trencherbone Platform (4.4 km)
• 12 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£194,393 average▲ 2.8% YoY

Across Wigan · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£746 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

• 1 bed £542
• 2 bed £700
• 3 bed £838

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

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

4,223 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: 151.9p · BP (1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (1 km)

24 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

35 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Bents Garden Centre (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches6
• Playgrounds2

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,073
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK12,395
• Net moves+2,678

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 102 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

146 schools · 48,372 pupils

99 primary · 19 secondary · 28 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wigan

259 CQC-registered services

• Care homes61
• GP practices62
• Dentists57
• Homecare agencies45
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wigan

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

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

180 applications decided

88.3% granted · 159 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Labour majority

• Lab 42
• Ref 25
• Oth 7

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,900 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

9 jobs advertised · £26,441 avg

e.g. Pizza Chef, Housekeeping Assistant, Junior Sous Chef

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

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

16 GP surgeries · 9 pharmacies in WA3

• Culcheth Medical Centre
• Birchwood Medical Centre
• Braithwaite Rd Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Warrington North:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth263 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK142 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND139 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases132 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Review & amend immigration rules for Hongkongers with political convictions128 local signatures · 11,120 nationwide

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

• Glazebury and Bury Lane railway station · 0.4 km

  Glazebury and Bury Lane is a closed railway station between Liverpool and Manchester.

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  Light Oaks Hall · 0.7 km

  Light Oaks Hall is a Grade II* listed building on Light Oaks Road, east of Glazebury, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it is an example of e…

• Bedford Hall · 1.7 km

  Bedford Hall is a late-medieval house in Bedford, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was leased to tenants by the Kighleys, absent lords of the manor of Bedford, and has been modified several times over the centur…

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  Culcheth High School · 1.8 km

  Culcheth High School is a community school for students aged 11–16, located in Warrington, Cheshire. It serves many of the surrounding areas with a student base of over 1,000 students. In 2010, it opened a new £28,000…

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  Leigh South · 1.8 km

  Leigh South is an electoral ward in Leigh, England. It forms part of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, as well as the parliamentary constituency of Leigh.

• Flow Moss railway station · 2.1 km

  Flow Moss was a short-lived, original railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway south of Astley village in what was then the county of Lancashire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)