Ashley (Newcastle-under-Lyme)

10°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 4° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:37

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

2 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2

Neighbourhood team: Madeley Keele & Loggerheads · Staffordshire

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

157 reported road collisions (2025)

39 killed or seriously injured · 204 casualties · 12.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

11 food businesses within 2 miles

• 11 rated 4–5 ★ (9 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£208,269 average▲ 5.2% YoY

Across Newcastle-under-Lyme · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£833 average monthly rent▲ 7.8% YoY

• 1 bed £580
• 2 bed £744
• 3 bed £896

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

6.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.2 times median annual pay (5.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,589 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: 155.9p · Esso (11.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Esso (11.6 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

123,299 residents in Newcastle-under-Lyme · 584/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,570
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,972
• Net moves+598

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 146 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,334 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (43% of 58,590)

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

63 schools · 17,429 pupils

41 primary · 9 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 22 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Newcastle-under-Lyme

833 CQC-registered services

• Care homes274
• GP practices127
• Dentists179
• Homecare agencies170
• Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 10 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Staffordshire

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

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

125 applications decided

91.2% granted · 114 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Leigh Ingham

Labour

Stafford

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 2
• Con 15
• Ref 26

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

4,315 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£692 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,129 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 · 54,820 certificates

17.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

54% low-carbon electricity

Gas 41% · Nuclear 22% · Wind 21% · Solar 8%

166 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Staffordshire): 62.5 women · 63 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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

7 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in TF9

• Tern Hill Medical Centre
• Market Drayton Medical Practice
• Hodnet Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stafford:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND319 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills315 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases304 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Ban on sale of disposable BBQs176 local signatures · 22,327 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth174 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

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

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  Ashley, Staffordshire · 0.3 km

  Ashley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Loggerheads, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 508. Th…

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  Loggerheads, Staffordshire · 2.1 km

  Loggerheads is a village and civil parish in north-west Staffordshire, England, on the A53 between Market Drayton and Newcastle-under-Lyme. The village is close to the border with Shropshire and Cheshire.

• Maer, Staffordshire · 3.3 km

  Maer is a rural village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, to the west of the pottery manufacturing city of Stoke-on-Trent.

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  Mucklestone · 3.6 km

  Mucklestone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Loggerheads, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is about nine miles (14 km) northwest of Eccleshall…

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  Dorothy Clive Garden · 3.6 km

  The Dorothy Clive Garden is a charitable garden trust located in Willoughbridge, Shropshire, close to its Staffordshire and Cheshire borders.

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  Maer Hall · 3.8 km

  Maer Hall is a large Grade II listed 17th-century country house in Maer, Staffordshire, set in a park which is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)