Rufford (West Lancashire)

9°CCloudy

• Today: 11° / 8° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:18Sunset 16:31

9h 12m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Preston, United Kingdom

• 6.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

7 reported · August 2026▼ 30% YoY

• Criminal damage & arson2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Public order1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Burscough Bridge & Rufford · Lancashire

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

185 reported road collisions (2025)

67 killed or seriously injured · 254 casualties · 15.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

22 food businesses within 2 miles

• 20 rated 4–5 ★ (19 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Rufford (0.5 km)
• 19 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£240,850 average▲ 5.6% YoY

Across West Lancashire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£805 average monthly rent▲ 5.6% YoY

• 1 bed £588
• 2 bed £731
• 3 bed £845

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

7.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.1 times median annual pay (6.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,476 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: 168.9p · ESSO (10.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 193.9p · Asda (9.5 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 200 kW
• Nearest: Fettlers Wharf Marina Limited (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches4
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

117,431 residents in West Lancashire · 339/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,994
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,457
• Net moves+1,537

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 176 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,456 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (28% of 52,760)

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

73 schools · 16,020 pupils

55 primary · 6 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 27 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Lancashire

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
• 11 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

154 applications decided

85.1% granted · 131 granted, 23 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Patrick Hurley

Labour

Southport

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 13
• Con 12
• Ref 7
• Oth 13

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens27
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,135 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£788 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,532 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,300 certificates

11.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

78% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 46% · Wind 33% · Gas 12% · Imports 10%

46 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.2 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

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

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

6 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in L40

• Burscough Family Practice
• Lathom House Surgery
• Stanley Court Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Southport:

• Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices1,342 local signatures · 8,814 nationwide
• Fund a medical cannabis trial for children left without NHS access since 2018348 local signatures · 6,235 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth198 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND195 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK141 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

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  Rufford Old Hall · 0.3 km

  Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property in Rufford, Lancashire, in north-west England. Built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries for the Hesketh family, only the great hall survives from the origi…

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  Rufford, Lancashire · 0.3 km

  Rufford is a village in West Lancashire, England, where the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, the A59 and the River Douglas meet.

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  Rufford railway station · 0.6 km

  Rufford railway station, opened on 2 April 1849, serves the village of Rufford in Lancashire, England. The station is south west of Preston on the Preston-Ormskirk branch service. The line was formerly the Liverpool,…

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  Mere Sands Wood · 1.4 km

  Mere Sands Wood is a 105 acres (42 ha) nature reserve between the villages of Holmeswood and Rufford in west Lancashire, England, managed by The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside. It lies ab…

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  River Yarrow (Lancashire) · 2.9 km

  The River Yarrow is in Lancashire, with its source at an area called Will Narr at Hordern Stoops, along Spitlers Edge - the Chorley/Blackburn boundary - on the West Pennine Moors. The river feeds the Yarrow Reservoir,…

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  Sollom · 3.0 km

  Sollom is a hamlet in the parish of Tarleton, in Lancashire, England. It lies south of Tarleton and north of Rufford on the A59 road, giving the village good links to Preston, Southport and Liverpool.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)