Ford

14°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 17° / 11° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:41

13h 5m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wrexham, United Kingdom

5 reported · July 2026▼ 37% YoY

• Other theft4
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Shrewsbury Rural West · West Mercia

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

389 reported road collisions (2024)

135 killed or seriously injured · 528 casualties · 12 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

9 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£284,036 average▲ 4.9% YoY

Across Shropshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£819 average monthly rent▲ 3.9% YoY

• 1 bed £605
• 2 bed £765
• 3 bed £949

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 166.7p · Asda (8.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Morrisons (9.1 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Princess House (2.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches8
• Playgrounds3

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)

Around the average in England

Ranked 165 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Shropshire

359 CQC-registered services

• Care homes118
• GP practices46
• Dentists77
• Homecare agencies87
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Shropshire

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

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

528 applications decided

88.4% granted · 467 granted, 61 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Julia Buckley

Labour

Shrewsbury

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 4
• Con 7
• LD 40
• Grn 4
• Ref 15
• Oth 4

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens69
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,950 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

20 jobs advertised · £27,268 avg

e.g. Online Music Tutoring Job in Ford (West Sussex) – Flexible Schedule, Online Geography Tutoring Job in Ford (Buckinghamshire) – Flexible Schedule, Online Maths Tutoring Job in Ford (Kent) – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£727 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% 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

87% low-carbon electricity

Wind 65% · Nuclear 18% · Gas 10% · Biomass 5%

47 gCO₂/kWh · low 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Shrewsbury:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership534 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office340 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership337 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s291 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test220 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Ford, Shropshire · 0.1 km

  Ford is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 890.

• Ford and Crossgates railway station · 0.5 km

  Ford and Crossgates railway station was a station in Ford, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1866 and closed in 1933.

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  Shrewsbury (constituency) · 0.7 km

  Shrewsbury is a parliamentary constituency in England, centred on the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024 by Julia Buckl…

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  Shoot Hill railway station · 1.0 km

  Shoot Hill railway station was a station to the south of Ford, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1921 and closed in 1933. Although its official closure was on 29 February 1960, a 2-coach Stephenson Locomo…

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  Montford, Shropshire · 1.4 km

  Montford is a small village and parish in Shropshire, England.

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  Preston Montford · 2.0 km

  Preston Montford, or Preston Montford Hall, is a historic house 5 miles (8 km) west of Shrewsbury in England that is used as a field studies centre by Field Studies Council. The large eighteenth-century house with lat…

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