Cannock Wood

15°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 11° · 37% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:39

13h 10m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

10 reported · July 2026▼ 17% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences4
• Anti-social behaviour3
• Other theft1
• Possession of weapons1

Neighbourhood team: Rawnsley · Staffordshire

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

114 reported road collisions (2024)

31 killed or seriously injured · 149 casualties · 11.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

86 food businesses within 2 miles

• 59 rated 4–5 ★ (45 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Chasewater Heaths (3.7 km)
• 7 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£230,601 average▲ 3.5% YoY

Across Cannock Chase · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£859 average monthly rent▲ 6% YoY

• 1 bed £584
• 2 bed £774
• 3 bed £955

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

6.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.3 times median annual pay (6.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (10.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (10.7 km)

17 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

26 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 200 kW
• Nearest: McDonald's Burntwood (3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

100,519 residents in Cannock Chase · 1,274/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 126 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,376 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (31% of 46,090)

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

40 schools · 13,722 pupils

28 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 14 of 17 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

38inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cannock Chase

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

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

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

57 applications decided

96.5% granted · 55 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Josh Newbury

Labour

Cannock Chase

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK (minority)

• Lab 10
• Con 8
• Grn 3
• Ref 13
• Oth 2

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,135 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

7 jobs advertised

e.g. Be Your Own Boss - Deliver with Uber Eats, Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Looking For Part-Time Opportunities? - Deliver with Uber Eats

Source: Adzuna

£726 median full-time weekly pay

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

£20,857 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 47,620 certificates

14.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

85% low-carbon electricity

Wind 37% · Nuclear 23% · Solar 17% · Gas 10%

49 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.9 yrs women · 78.4 yrs men

78% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.0
• Feeling worthwhile8.3
• Happiness yesterday8.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.2

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Cannock Chase:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office501 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership393 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s365 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test347 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance335 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

• Cannock Wood · 0.2 km

  Cannock Wood is a village and civil parish in the Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire, England. The village is situated around 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Cannock, the same distance south of Rugeley, and 2 miles (3.2…

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  Gentleshaw · 0.5 km

  Gentleshaw is a village in the Lichfield District of Staffordshire, England. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) from Lichfield, 6 miles (9.7 km) from Rugeley, and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Burntwood.

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  Castle Ring · 0.6 km

  Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.

• Nun's Well (Cannock Wood) · 0.7 km

  Nun's Well is a spring just inside the village of Cannock Wood in Staffordshire, England, at the base of the Mercia Mudstone Group. There is no evidence that nuns ever lived there, and the name appears to originate i…

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  Gentleshaw Common · 1.1 km

  Gentleshaw Common is an area of common land situated in Gentleshaw on the northern side of Burntwood in Staffordshire, England. The area is a Site of Special Scientific Interest as it is an area of globally rare lowla…

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  Beaudesert, Cannock Chase · 1.3 km

  Beaudesert was an estate and stately home on the southern edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. It was one of the family seats of the Paget family, the Marquesses of Anglesey. The estate was obtained by William Page…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)