Leyland

6°CClear

• Today: 11° / 6° · 24% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:34

9h 20m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Preston, United Kingdom

• 6.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

194 reported · August 2026▼ 27% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences77
• Shoplifting36
• Anti-social behaviour32
• Criminal damage & arson17

2 stop & searches · mostly articles for use in criminal damage

Neighbourhood team: St Ambrose · Lancashire

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

189 reported road collisions (2025)

61 killed or seriously injured · 300 casualties · 16.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

350 food businesses within 2 miles

• 293 rated 4–5 ★ (281 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Leyland (0.1 km)
• 47 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£216,624 average▲ 4.2% YoY

Across Chorley · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£798 average monthly rent▲ 7.1% YoY

• 1 bed £598
• 2 bed £763
• 3 bed £904

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

6.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.3 times median annual pay (5.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,567 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 · Esso (10 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Esso (10 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

57 charging locations within ~8 km

• 25 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Leyland Train Station Car Park, Leyland 3 (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches31
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Remembrance Sunday Parade 2026· 3 Nov 2026
• A new chapter for Astley Hall as historic house fully reopens· 26 Oct 2026
• The Longest Yarn weaves its way to Astley Hall· 20 Oct 2026
• Blooming marvellous! Two of Chorley’s events sprint into tourism award finals.· 28 Sept 2026
• New Active Track opens at West Way Sports· 23 Sept 2026

Source: Chorley Council

117,730 residents in Chorley · 581/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,819
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,509
• Net moves+1,310

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 190 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,430 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (29% of 53,180)

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

73 schools · 17,889 pupils

50 primary · 7 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 31 of 33 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chorley

1,255 CQC-registered services

• Care homes424
• GP practices184
• Dentists248
• Homecare agencies288
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lancashire

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

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

128 applications decided

91.4% granted · 117 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Mr Paul Foster

Labour

South Ribble

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 29
• Con 4
• Grn 1
• Ref 6
• Oth 2

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

• Schools14
• GPs & clinics9
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets8
• Parks & greens32
• Restaurants & cafés49

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,125 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

236 jobs advertised · £37,538 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, Night Shift Maintenance Engineer, Environmental Advisor

Source: Adzuna

£765 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,589 disposable income per head (2024)

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

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 52,947 certificates

9.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

70% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 41% · Wind 27% · Gas 21% · Imports 10%

85 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Lancashire): 60.3 women · 59.3 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.6

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

6 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in PR25

• Worden Medical Centre
• Sandy Lane Surgery
• Central Park Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Ribble:

• Fund a medical cannabis trial for children left without NHS access since 2018530 local signatures · 6,235 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth234 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills166 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately152 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases146 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide

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

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  Leyland railway station · 0.1 km

  Leyland railway station serves the town of Leyland in Lancashire, England. It was formerly "Golden Hill", the name of the street and area in which the station is based, but was renamed Leyland soon after opening. The…

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  South Ribble · 0.2 km

  South Ribble is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Leyland. The borough includes the towns and villages of Penwortham, Leyland, Farington, Farington Moss, H…

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  British Commercial Vehicle Museum · 0.5 km

  The British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian buses, early fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British manufacturing industry.

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  Farington · 0.6 km

  Farington is a village and civil parish in the South Ribble local government district of Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 Census was 7,868.

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  County Ground (Leyland) · 0.7 km

  The County Ground is a football stadium in Leyland, Lancashire, England, which is owned and operated by Lancashire County Football Association. It is the home ground of Burnley under-21s, Blackburn Rovers under-21s, B…

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  Wellfield Academy · 0.9 km

  Wellfield Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Leyland in the English county of Lancashire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)