Pye Bridge

7°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 7° · 57% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:28

9h 20m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

33US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

• 7.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

46 reported · August 2026▲ 12% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences17
• Anti-social behaviour7
• Drugs6
• Public order5

Neighbourhood team: Ashfield Rural · Nottinghamshire

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

190 reported road collisions (2025)

45 killed or seriously injured · 229 casualties · 15 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

179 food businesses within 2 miles

• 143 rated 4–5 ★ (123 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Swanwick Junction (3.0 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£189,498 average▲ 2.3% YoY

Across Ashfield · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£795 average monthly rent▲ 4.9% YoY

• 1 bed £560
• 2 bed £725
• 3 bed £847

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

5.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.6 times median annual pay (6.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,680 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: 137.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

24 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: MMD Mineral Sizing (Europe) LTD (2.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches6
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

126,297 residents in Ashfield · 1,153/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,177
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,805
• Net moves+1,372

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 75 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,609 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (52% of 58,000)

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

50 schools · 19,690 pupils

38 primary · 7 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 19 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (83%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Ashfield

797 CQC-registered services

• Care homes282
• GP practices108
• Dentists132
• Homecare agencies205
• Hospitals & hospices25

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 5 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Nottinghamshire

• Within the Green Belt
• 20 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

106 applications decided

92.5% granted · 98 granted, 8 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Independent majority

• Con 1
• Ref 3
• Oth 31

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens10
• Restaurants & cafés6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,815 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£676 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£19,973 disposable income per head (2024)

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

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 62,893 certificates

12.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 81.8 yrs women · 78.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Nottinghamshire): 58.7 women · 58.9 men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.0
• Feeling worthwhile6.8
• Happiness yesterday6.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

8 GP surgeries · 13 pharmacies in DE55

• Field House And Apartments - Bcss Inpatient Unit
• Jessop Medical Practice
• Somercotes Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Amber Valley:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills3,919 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND191 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth177 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK162 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Fund second stem cell transplants on NHS for relapse within 12 months138 local signatures · 30,826 nationwide

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

• Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station · 0.2 km

  Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between Kimberley and Pinxton. It served the villages of Pye Hill and Somercotes.

• Pye Bridge railway station · 0.2 km

  Pye Bridge railway station served the village of Pye Bridge, Derbyshire, England from 1851 to 1967 on the Erewash Valley Line.

• Pye Hill · 1.0 km

  Pye Hill is a hamlet in the Erewash Valley, Nottinghamshire, England. The B600 road runs east–west through it. It was once served by the Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station.

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  Ironville · 1.2 km

  Ironville in Derbyshire, England, was built about 1830 by the Butterley Company as a model village to house its workers. The population of the civil parish was 1,930 at the 2021 Census. It is situated between Riddings…

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  Christ Church, Ironville · 1.2 km

  Christ Church, Ironville is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Ironville, Derbyshire.

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  Upper Birchwood · 1.3 km

  Upper Birchwood is a village in Derbyshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Pinxton.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)