Bloxwich

7°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 10° / 6° · 33% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:34

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

• 6.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

336 reported · August 2026▼ 14% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences125
• Shoplifting47
• Criminal damage & arson31
• Vehicle crime26

Neighbourhood team: Bloxwich · West Midlands

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

204 reported road collisions (2025)

44 killed or seriously injured · 276 casualties · 18.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

464 food businesses within 2 miles

• 329 rated 4–5 ★ (241 top)
• 26 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Bloxwich (0.5 km)
• 78 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£308,695 average▲ 2.3% YoY

Across South Staffordshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£958 average monthly rent▲ 5.8% YoY

• 1 bed £665
• 2 bed £858
• 3 bed £1,019

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

7.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.2 times median annual pay (8.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,400 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: 135.8p · AppleGreen (10.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (10.1 km)

25 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

45 charging locations within ~8 km

• 31 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 360 kW
• Nearest: Old House At Home (2.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches19
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

110,471 residents in South Staffordshire · 271/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,660
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,622
• Net moves+1,038

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 222 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,314 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (24% of 49,350)

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

59 schools · 16,630 pupils

36 primary · 7 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 19 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Staffordshire

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

• In a conservation area (Bloxwich High Street)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

145 applications decided

80.7% granted · 117 granted, 28 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Valerie Vaz

Labour

Walsall and Bloxwich

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 1
• Con 29
• LD 4
• Grn 2
• Oth 5

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

• Schools23
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies9
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens21
• Restaurants & cafés37

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,665 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

27 jobs advertised · £31,057 avg

e.g. Experienced Commercial Cleaners Needed – Office Sites, Delivery Driver / Moped, Our clients are searching electricians for the service tv aerial in Bloxwich

Source: Adzuna

£765 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,228 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 42,520 certificates

13.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

45% low-carbon electricity

Gas 50% · Nuclear 23% · Wind 19% · Imports 5%

203 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 80.3 yrs men

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

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile8.5
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

16 GP surgeries · 13 pharmacies in WS3

• Chapel Street Surgery
• Mossley & Dudley Fields Medical Practice
• Bloxwich Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Walsall and Bloxwich:

• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 295 local signatures · 20,508 nationwide
• Fund routine screening for bacterial vaginosis (BV) during pregnancy.195 local signatures · 5,484 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND126 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth90 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove the grey belt planning rules81 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide

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

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  All Saints' Church, Bloxwich · 0.3 km

  All Saints' Church is the parish church of the town of Bloxwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands County of England. It is located to the south of the High Street, close to the junctionwith E…

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  Bloxwich railway station · 0.5 km

  Bloxwich railway station serves Bloxwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway. It is situated between Bloxwich…

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  Bloxwich · 0.5 km

  Bloxwich is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. It is located between the towns of Walsall, Cannock, Willenhall and Brownhills.

• Walsall Academy · 0.7 km

  Walsall Academy is a secondary school based in Bloxwich, Walsall, West Midlands, England.

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  Blakenall Heath · 0.9 km

  Blakenall Heath is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands County, England. Historically the village was a part of Staffordshire. It was originally a rural area between Walsall a…

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  Walsall North · 1.0 km

  Walsall North was a constituency in the West Midlands represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, created in 1955.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)