St Helens (St. Helens)

15°CMist

• Today: 20° / 15° · 53% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 15° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:34

12h 55m 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

505 reported · July 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences195
• Anti-social behaviour70
• Shoplifting57
• Public order52

164 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Town Centre · 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)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 384 rated 4–5 ★ (290 top)
• 32 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: St Helens Central (0.9 km)
• 49 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 (11.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Asda (10.3 km)

29 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

41 charging locations within ~8 km

• 20 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Extra-St Helens (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms3
• Sports pitches20
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds11

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
• 19 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

Reform UK majority

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

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

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics8
• Pharmacies13
• Supermarkets10
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés44

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,510 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

601 jobs advertised · £37,933 avg

e.g. Area Manager, Male Support Worker, Project Manager

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

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 South and Whiston:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership426 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office369 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test316 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s302 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth281 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  St Helens South and Whiston · 0.4 km

  St. Helens South and Whiston is a constituency created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Marie Rimmer of the Labour Party.

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  St Helens South · 0.4 km

  St Helens South was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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  World of Glass, St Helens · 0.5 km

  The World of Glass is a local museum and visitor centre in St Helens, Merseyside, England. The museum is dedicated to the local history of the town and borough primarily through the lens of the glass industry but also…

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  BrewDog Stadium · 0.6 km

  BrewDog Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in St Helens, Merseyside, England. Previously known as the Totally Wicked Stadium, between 2017 and 2025, and as Langtree Park between 2012 and 2017, it has a capacity of ov…

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  St Helens Minster · 0.7 km

  St Helens Minster, formerly known as the Church of St Helen, is an Anglican church located in, St Helens, Merseyside, England. A chapel has been on the site since at least the 16th century. The chapel was doubled in s…

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  St Helens Central railway station · 0.9 km

  St Helens Central railway station is a railway station serving the town of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is on the Liverpool to Wigan Line from Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western. The station is managed…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)