Pye Bridge

16°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 11° · 69% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 15° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:30

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

63 reported · July 2026▲ 29% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences34
• Anti-social behaviour15
• Public order5
• Criminal damage & arson4

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Ashfield Rural · Nottinghamshire

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

184 reported road collisions (2024)

37 killed or seriously injured · 228 casualties · 14.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

180 food businesses within 2 miles

• 143 rated 4–5 ★ (124 top)
• 6 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

£190,024 average▲ 3.2% YoY

Across Ashfield · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£793 average monthly rent▲ 5% YoY

• 1 bed £558
• 2 bed £723
• 3 bed £845

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)

14 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)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 63 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

16% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Ashfield

796 CQC-registered services

• Care homes283
• GP practices107
• Dentists132
• Homecare agencies205
• Hospitals & hospices25

CQC ratings: 91% 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)

97 applications decided

79.4% granted · 77 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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)

3,775 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Amber Valley:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills3,915 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership398 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance370 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office355 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s282 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

• 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)