Urmston

15°CMist

• Today: 19° / 10° · 86% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:35

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

39US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Salford Eccles, United Kingdom

190 reported road collisions (2024)

56 killed or seriously injured · 241 casualties · 8.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 426 rated 4–5 ★ (381 top)
• 11 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

£396,811 average▲ 9.7% YoY

Across Trafford · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,367 average monthly rent▲ 2.5% YoY

• 1 bed £943
• 2 bed £1,200
• 3 bed £1,480

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · BP (10.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (10.2 km)

56 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)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 209 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Trafford

260 CQC-registered services

• Care homes56
• GP practices49
• Dentists71
• Homecare agencies63
• 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)

324 applications decided

86.1% granted · 279 granted, 45 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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)

13,275 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

82 jobs advertised · £32,357 avg

e.g. Chef de Partie, Deliver with Uber Eats - Sign Up and Start Earning, Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*

Source: Adzuna

£869 median full-time weekly pay

3% 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

81% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 43% · Wind 31% · Imports 14% · Biomass 7%

28 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stretford and Urmston:

• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 382 local signatures · 10,809 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s355 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership334 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office306 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test244 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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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)