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Baldwin's Gate

Baldwin's Gate is a village in Staffordshire, England, with a population of around 1,800. There is 1 restaurant or café and 10 bus stops. There were around 1 recorded street crime in June 2026, most commonly Violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Baldwin's Gate area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Newcastle-under-Lyme area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 123,299 residents at roughly 584 people per km².

Council
Newcastle-under-Lyme
County
Staffordshire
Constituency
Stone
Police force
Staffordshire
58/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 98th of 294 English council areas — better than 67% of them.

Low crime65
Home affordability80
Affordable rents66
Good schools47
Life expectancy31
Low deprivation49
Employment57
Low council tax75

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 11° / 4° · 18% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:36

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

4 reported · August 2026▲ 300% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Violence & sexual offences2

Neighbourhood team: Madeley Keele & Loggerheads · Staffordshire

Local policing priorities

  • Repeat anti-social behaviour (ASB) around Greyhound Court and Madeley shops. This is from groups of youths in and around the shops and ot…
  • Anti-social behaviour (ASB) noted on Keele golf course, specifically nuisance off-road motorcycles

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

17 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 17 rated 4–5 ★ (16 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Wedgwood (9.1 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£208,269 average▲ 5.2% YoY

Across Newcastle-under-Lyme · to 2026-08

Detached£319,466
Semi-detached£201,629
Terraced£163,133
Flat£90,902

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Esso (6.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Esso (6.5 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

17 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: Keele Northbound Supercharger (4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches11
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

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

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

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

Council tax

£2,334 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,556
B £1,816
C £2,075
D £2,334
E £2,853
F £3,372
G £3,890
H £4,669

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Chesterton Community Sports CollegeGood
  • Clayton Hall AcademyGood
  • Kidsgrove Secondary SchoolGood
  • Newcastle AcademyGood
  • Sir Thomas Boughey AcademyGood
  • The Orme AcademyGood
  • St John Fisher Catholic CollegeRequires improvement
  • Madeley High School
  • The King's CofE Academy

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

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

125 applications decided

91.2% granted · 114 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Leigh Ingham

Labour

Stafford

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Reform UK majority

  • Lab 2
  • Con 15
  • Ref 26

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,315 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

47% low-carbon electricity

Gas 49% · Nuclear 18% · Wind 16% · Solar 11%

196 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

19 GP surgeries · 16 pharmacies in ST5

  • Heathcote Street Surgery
  • The Village Surgery
  • Miller Street Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stafford:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Baldwin's Gate · 0.2 km

    Baldwin's Gate is a village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. The population details for the 2011 census can be found under Whitmore. There is a pub in the centre of the village called The Sheet…

  • Whitmore railway station · 0.3 km

    Whitmore was a station serving the village of Whitmore, Staffordshire.

  • Berth Hill · 1.4 km

    Berth Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Staffordshire, England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and near the village of Maer. It is a scheduled monument. Other forms of its name have been Bryt…

  • Whitmore, Staffordshire · 1.6 km

    Whitmore is a village, civil parish and small curacy in the county of Staffordshire, England, near Newcastle-under-Lyme.

  • Maer Hall · 1.8 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

  • Whitmore Hall · 1.9 km

    Whitmore Hall is the home of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family at Whitmore, Staffordshire. A Grade I listed building, the hall was designated a house of outstanding architectural and historical interest and is a fine exa…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Baldwin's Gate?
Baldwin's Gate is a town in Staffordshire, England, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local authority.
How deprived is Baldwin's Gate?
The Newcastle-under-Lyme local authority, which includes Baldwin's Gate, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.