Birstall

12°CCloudy

• Today: 15° / 7° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:36

9h 37m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

59US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leicester University, United Kingdom

• 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

256 reported · August 2026▲ 12% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences96
• Anti-social behaviour48
• Public order22
• Criminal damage & arson17

6 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Belgrave · Leicestershire

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

163 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 208 casualties · 8.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 392 rated 4–5 ★ (336 top)
• 28 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Leicester North (1.1 km)
• 32 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£270,351 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across Charnwood · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£960 average monthly rent▲ 4.2% YoY

• 1 bed £679
• 2 bed £847
• 3 bed £1,029

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

7.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.5 times median annual pay (7.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,332 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: 140.8p · AppleGreen (3.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 145.8p · AppleGreen (3.1 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

66 charging locations within ~8 km

• 12 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 360 kW
• Nearest: Sainsbury's Leicester North (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Sports pitches49
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds23

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

183,971 residents in Charnwood · 659/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK17,429
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK16,548
• Net moves+881

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 232 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,406 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (28% of 79,560)

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

80 schools · 27,415 pupils

49 primary · 11 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 20 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Charnwood

633 CQC-registered services

• Care homes165
• GP practices107
• Dentists134
• Homecare agencies172
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Leicestershire

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

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

258 applications decided

93.8% granted · 242 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Labour (minority)

• Lab 20
• Con 23
• Grn 7
• Oth 2

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

• Schools14
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets6
• Parks & greens14
• Restaurants & cafés21

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,665 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

45 jobs advertised · £31,107 avg

e.g. Lead Electrical Design Engineer, Kitchen Team, Cleaner

Source: Adzuna

£761 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,535 disposable income per head (2024)

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

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 82,396 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Leicestershire): 61.4 women · 61.5 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

20 GP surgeries · 31 pharmacies in LE4

• Greengate Medical Centre
• Manor Park Medical Practice
• Dr B Modi

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Leicester East:

• Ensure fair and transparent faith security funding for all faith communities382 local signatures · 20,440 nationwide
• Introduce weekend access to death certification for burials137 local signatures · 9,659 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND65 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth50 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Fund £20,000 a year (term time) wage for Teaching Assistants40 local signatures · 39,730 nationwide

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

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  Rushey Mead Academy · 0.6 km

  Rushey Mead Academy, previously known as Rushey Mead School, is a mixed secondary school located in Leicester, Leicestershire, England for students aged 11 to 16. It is part of The Mead Educational Trust which also in…

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  Birstall, Leicestershire · 0.8 km

  Birstall is a large village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is three miles north of Leicester city centre and is part of the wider Leicester Urban Area.

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  Church of St James the Great, Birstall · 0.8 km

  The Church of St James the Great is a church in Birstall, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II listed building.

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  Rushey Mead · 0.9 km

  Rushey Mead is an area, suburb, electoral ward, and administrative division of the city of Leicester, in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. It comprises the northern Leicester suburb of Rushey Mead in i…

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  Red Hill filling station · 0.9 km

  The Red Hill filling station on the west of the A6, Loughborough Road, approximately 300 metres (980 ft) north of Red Hill Circle in Birstall near Leicester, became a Grade II listed building in 2012.

• Soar Valley College · 1.0 km

  Soar Valley College is an 11–16 coeducational secondary school located in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)