Urmston

13°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 13° / 8° · 24% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:31

9h 17m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Salford Eccles, United Kingdom

• 7.1 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

188 reported road collisions (2025)

54 killed or seriously injured · 235 casualties · 8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 431 rated 4–5 ★ (387 top)
• 14 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Urmston (0.0 km)
• 52 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£393,897 average▲ 6.4% YoY

Across Trafford · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,369 average monthly rent▲ 2.5% YoY

• 1 bed £944
• 2 bed £1,202
• 3 bed £1,483

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

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (10.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,839 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 (10.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (10.2 km)

29 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

121 charging locations within ~8 km

• 27 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Trafford General Hospital (1.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches63
• Golf courses3
• Playgrounds15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

235,052 residents in Trafford · 2,217/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK16,132
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK15,309
• Net moves+823

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 223 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,292 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 104,310)

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

102 schools · 44,496 pupils

62 primary · 19 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 38 of 43 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Trafford

262 CQC-registered services

• Care homes56
• GP practices50
• Dentists71
• Homecare agencies64
• Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 5 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Trafford

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

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

322 applications decided

83.5% granted · 269 granted, 53 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Andrew Western

Labour

Stretford and Urmston

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 35
• Con 12
• LD 7
• Grn 7
• Ref 1
• Oth 1

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

• Schools19
• GPs & clinics7
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens24
• Restaurants & cafés53

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

13,580 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

67 jobs advertised · £42,838 avg

e.g. Hotel Kitchen - Team Member, Highly Specialist Clinical Physiologist (Sleep), Our clients are searching carpenters for the service garden furniture in Urmston

Source: Adzuna

£869 median full-time weekly pay

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

£29,384 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 · 104,226 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

70% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 40% · Wind 24% · Gas 21% · Imports 9%

86 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.2 women · 63.8 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

10 GP surgeries · 11 pharmacies in M41

• Urmston Group Practice
• Davyhulme Medical Centre
• Primrose Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stretford and Urmston:

• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 386 local signatures · 11,425 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND259 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth218 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases212 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks211 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

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  Urmston railway station · 0.0 km

  Urmston railway station is a railway station serving the town of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England. It is 5+1⁄2 miles (8.9 km) west of Manchester Oxford Road on the Manchester-Liverpool Line. It is managed by Nor…

• Hale Urban District · 0.3 km

  Hale Urban District was, from 1900 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Cheshire, England, which covered the town of Hale and the village of Hale Barns.

• Urmston Urban District · 0.3 km

  Urmston Urban District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England, which covered the modern-day district of Urmston.

• Urmston Grammar · 0.5 km

  Urmston Grammar, is a co-educational grammar school in Urmston, Greater Manchester, England. It is an academy located within the Trafford Local Authority area, though not controlled by it.

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  Chassen Road railway station · 1.0 km

  Chassen Road railway station is in the Trafford metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in the north west of England. The station was opened by the Cheshire Lines Committee on 10 September 1934. The station, and al…

• St Antony's Roman Catholic School · 1.1 km

  St Antony's Roman Catholic School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school in Urmston, Greater Manchester, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)