Broseley

11°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 7° · 41% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:36

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Stoke-on-Trent Centre, United Kingdom

• 5.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

27 reported · August 2026▼ 25% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences9
• Anti-social behaviour7
• Public order3
• Criminal damage & arson2

Neighbourhood team: Broseley and Much Wenlock · West Mercia

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

337 reported road collisions (2025)

121 killed or seriously injured · 479 casualties · 10.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

121 food businesses within 2 miles

• 108 rated 4–5 ★ (97 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Spring Village (5.4 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£277,521 average▼ 0.9% YoY

Across Shropshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£823 average monthly rent▲ 4.3% YoY

• 1 bed £608
• 2 bed £768
• 3 bed £953

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

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (7.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

4,264 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: 159.9p · Esso (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (11.8 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

15 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 100 kW
• Nearest: Best Western Valley Hotel (2.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches11
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

323,606 residents in Shropshire · 101/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,727
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK13,220
• Net moves+2,507

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 154 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,528 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (26% of 152,270)

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

185 schools · 43,666 pupils

127 primary · 19 secondary · 39 other

Ofsted: 55 of 70 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Shropshire

360 CQC-registered services

• Care homes117
• GP practices48
• Dentists77
• Homecare agencies87
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Shropshire

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

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

531 applications decided

88.3% granted · 469 granted, 62 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Stuart Anderson

Conservative

South Shropshire

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 4
• Con 7
• LD 41
• Grn 4
• Ref 15
• Oth 3

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

18,080 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

4 jobs advertised · £21,550 avg

e.g. AVON Representatives wanted in Broseley, Shropshire, England – start today, Trainee Driving Instructor - Broseley, Shropshire, England, Babysitter wanted in Broseley - babysitting Broseley

Source: Adzuna

£727 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,151 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 · 154,677 certificates

17.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

41% low-carbon electricity

Gas 56% · Nuclear 18% · Wind 15% · Solar 7%

223 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85 yrs women · 81 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 62.4 women · 63 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in TF12

• Broseley Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Shropshire:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks399 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills278 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases227 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately190 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK145 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

• Birchmeadow Playing Fields · 0.1 km

  Birchmeadow Playing Field Site is a 5.3-hectare (13-acre) recreational area in Broseley, England, consisting of a mixture of woodland, play area, and a football pitch. It was also one of the first places where a woode…

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  Broseley · 0.3 km

  Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The River Severn flows to its north and east. The first iron bridge in the world was bu…

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  Broseley Pipeworks · 0.5 km

  The Broseley Pipeworks is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums which were administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust until 2026, when they were transferred to the care of the National Trust.

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  Benthall, Shropshire · 1.0 km

  Benthall is a small village in the civil parish of Barrow, Shropshire, England. It is south of Telford, about a mile south of Ironbridge on the River Severn, and almost contiguous with the town of Broseley. In 1951 th…

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  Jackfield · 1.4 km

  Jackfield is a village in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, lying on the south bank of River Severn in the Ironbridge Gorge, downstream from Ironbridge. Like many of the settlements in the area, i…

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  Ironbridge and Broseley railway station · 1.4 km

  Ironbridge and Broseley railway station was a stop on the Severn Valley Railway Line; it served the town of Broseley and village of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)