Bloxwich

18°CCloudy

• Today: 23° / 16° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 12° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:28

12h 49m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

8US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

422 reported · July 2026▲ 23% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences194
• Shoplifting48
• Public order35
• Criminal damage & arson33

15 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Bloxwich · West Midlands

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

184 reported road collisions (2024)

37 killed or seriously injured · 253 casualties · 16.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

468 food businesses within 2 miles

• 322 rated 4–5 ★ (235 top)
• 27 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

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

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£310,258 average▲ 5.8% YoY

Across South Staffordshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£949 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £659
• 2 bed £849
• 3 bed £1,008

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 135.8p · AppleGreen (10.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (10.1 km)

45 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)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 235 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

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

842 CQC-registered services

• Care homes273
• GP practices129
• Dentists179
• Homecare agencies178
• Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 8 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)

176 applications decided

82.4% granted · 145 granted, 31 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Valerie Vaz

Labour

Walsall and Bloxwich

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 2
• Con 28
• 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)

4,615 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

59 jobs advertised · £29,551 avg

e.g. Online Italian Tutor - Part Time, Become a Computer science Tutor in Bloxwich – Flexible & Remote, Domestic End of Tenancy Cleaning Specialist

Source: Adzuna

£765 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% 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

46% low-carbon electricity

Gas 50% · Wind 21% · Nuclear 16% · Solar 5%

200 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 80.3 yrs 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Walsall and Bloxwich:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s373 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office294 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 288 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership215 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test180 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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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)