Scunthorpe

16°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 15° · 62% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:25

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Hull Freetown, United Kingdom

475 reported · July 2026▲ 21% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences181
• Shoplifting68
• Anti-social behaviour46
• Criminal damage & arson33

21 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Frodingham · Humberside

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

314 reported road collisions (2024)

94 killed or seriously injured · 454 casualties · 18.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 391 rated 4–5 ★ (329 top)
• 30 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Scunthorpe (0.8 km)
• 67 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£181,725 average▲ 7.8% YoY

Across North Lincolnshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£653 average monthly rent▲ 6.4% YoY

• 1 bed £472
• 2 bed £617
• 3 bed £751

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

5.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.2 times median annual pay (5.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 165.9p · Asda (2.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Asda (2.4 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

14 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 160 kW
• Nearest: Ashby Road (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches60
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds19

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

169,680 residents in North Lincolnshire · 200/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 120 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

11% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,348 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (46% of 78,120)

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

93 schools · 23,998 pupils

62 primary · 14 secondary · 17 other

Ofsted: 30 of 40 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (75%)

80inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · North Lincolnshire

132 CQC-registered services

• Care homes59
• GP practices26
• Dentists21
• Homecare agencies19
• Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · North Lincolnshire

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

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

165 applications decided

87.3% granted · 144 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sir Nicholas Dakin

Labour

Scunthorpe

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 15
• Con 27
• Ref 1

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

• Schools14
• GPs & clinics5
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens29
• Restaurants & cafés32

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,835 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

732 jobs advertised · £38,692 avg

e.g. Lifeguard Team Member Plus, Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Outpatients Sister

Source: Adzuna

£716 median full-time weekly pay

3.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,892 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 · 77,042 certificates

14.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

89% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 67% · Wind 21% · Gas 8% · Imports 3%

113 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 77.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.6 women · 58.7 men

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Scunthorpe:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s385 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office370 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership290 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test217 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance213 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

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  Scunthorpe Civic Centre · 0.2 km

  Scunthorpe Civic Centre, also known as Pittwood House, is a municipal building in Ashby Road in Scunthorpe, a town in Lincolnshire in England. The building served as the headquarters of Scunthorpe Municipal Borough Co…

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  Scunthorpe · 0.3 km

  Scunthorpe is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest se…

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  The Pods · 0.4 km

  The Pods is a leisure centre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England. The leisure centre offers a wide range of modern facilities, including two swimming pools, a gym, a café and a sports hall. The leisure centre i…

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  Brumby Hall Cricket Ground · 0.5 km

  Scunthorpe and Appleby Frodingham Works Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1925 when Lincolnshire first played at the ground in the Minor…

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  Brumby Hall · 0.6 km

  Brumby Hall is a late 17th-century residence and a Grade II* Listed building in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.

• Outwood Academy Brumby · 0.6 km

  Outwood Academy Brumby is a mixed secondary school with academy status, in Scunthorpe (Brumby), North Lincolnshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)