Haydock

15°CMist

• Today: 20° / 14° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 24° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:36

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

29US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wigan Centre, United Kingdom

68 reported · July 2026▼ 24% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences37
• Anti-social behaviour6
• Public order6
• Shoplifting6

11 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Haydock · Merseyside

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

237 reported road collisions (2024)

57 killed or seriously injured · 292 casualties · 12.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

273 food businesses within 2 miles

• 204 rated 4–5 ★ (160 top)
• 24 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Garswood (2.4 km)
• 27 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£186,435 average▲ 11.1% YoY

Across St. Helens · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£802 average monthly rent▲ 6.1% YoY

• 1 bed £590
• 2 bed £732
• 3 bed £895

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

5.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.7 times median annual pay (5.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (7.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 177.7p · Asda (11 km)

33 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

45 charging locations within ~8 km

• 17 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Atg Access LTD (1.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches7
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

183,247 residents in St. Helens · 1,344/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 40 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

24% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,403 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (44% of 86,150)

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

79 schools · 26,828 pupils

54 primary · 9 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 22 of 29 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (76%)

70inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · St. Helens

164 CQC-registered services

• Care homes41
• GP practices31
• Dentists27
• Homecare agencies40
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · St. Helens

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

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

117 applications decided

96.6% granted · 113 granted, 4 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

David Baines

Labour

St Helens North

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 3
• Con 1
• LD 3
• Ref 34
• Oth 6

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

• Schools6
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,510 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

79 jobs advertised · £36,415 avg

e.g. Project Manager, 7.5t Driver, Hub Supervisor

Source: Adzuna

£748 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,753 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 92,695 certificates

12% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

87% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Nuclear 31% · Gas 8% · Imports 6%

33 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 81 yrs women · 77 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 56 women · 55.7 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• 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 St Helens North:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership530 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office488 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s317 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test312 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 267 local signatures · 10,809 nationwide

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

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  Outwood Academy Haydock is a coeducational secondary school located in Haydock in the English county of Merseyside.

• Haydock railway station · 0.7 km

  Haydock railway station served the village of Haydock, formerly in Lancashire, now in Merseyside, England.

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  Blackbrook, St Helens · 1.2 km

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  Haydock · 1.4 km

  Haydock is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 11,416 Haydock's historic area covers the Haydock electoral ward and a section of t…

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  Church of St James the Great, Haydock · 1.5 km

  The Church of St James the Great is in Church Road, Haydock, a former mining community, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of St. Helens, Merseyside, in the North-west of England. It is an active Anglican parish chu…

• St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy · 1.9 km

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