Cookshill

9°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 10° / 7° · 37% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:09Sunset 16:33

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

• 6.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

115 reported · August 2026▲ 16% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences48
• Anti-social behaviour26
• Public order11
• Burglary9

Neighbourhood team: Forsbrook & Caverswall · Staffordshire

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

163 reported road collisions (2025)

51 killed or seriously injured · 239 casualties · 17 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

205 food businesses within 2 miles

• 166 rated 4–5 ★ (143 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Caverswall Road (1.6 km)
• 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£224,481 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across Staffordshire Moorlands · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£728 average monthly rent▲ 7.5% YoY

• 1 bed £527
• 2 bed £685
• 3 bed £866

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

7.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.3 times median annual pay (6.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,309 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: 154.9p · Esso (8.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (9.8 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

29 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 60 kW
• Nearest: Meir Service Station (1.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches13
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

95,845 residents in Staffordshire Moorlands · 166/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,734
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK3,921
• Net moves+813

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 202 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,338 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (24% of 45,160)

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

68 schools · 14,402 pupils

42 primary · 8 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 23 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

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

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

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
• 19 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

111 applications decided

82% granted · 91 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Dame Karen Bradley

Conservative

Staffordshire Moorlands

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 19
• Con 21
• LD 1
• Grn 2
• Ref 1
• Oth 11

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

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens14
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,530 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£770 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,399 disposable income per head (2024)

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

30% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 41,004 certificates

17.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

48% low-carbon electricity

Gas 50% · Nuclear 18% · Wind 17% · Solar 9%

201 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

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

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in ST11

• Trinity Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Staffordshire Moorlands:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills575 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases200 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND192 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Ban on sale of disposable BBQs186 local signatures · 22,327 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks178 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

• Cookshill · 0.2 km

  Cookshill is a small village in the civil parish of Caverswall, Staffordshire, England, near to Weston Coyney.

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  Caverswall · 0.6 km

  Caverswall is a village and parish in Staffordshire, England, to the south west of Staffordshire Moorlands.

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  Caverswall Castle · 0.6 km

  Caverswall Castle is a privately owned early-17th-century English mansion built in a castellar style upon the foundations and within the walls of a 13th-century castle, in Caverswall, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I li…

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  St Filumena's Church, Caverswall · 0.6 km

  St Filumena's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Caverswall, in Staffordshire, England, and in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. The building, completed in 1864, is Grade II listed.

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  Weston Coyney · 1.3 km

  Weston Coyney is a suburb of the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. It lies on the south eastern edge of the city and borders the neighbouring Staffordshire Moorlands district.

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  Foley Meir F.C. · 1.6 km

  Foley Meir Football Club is based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One South and play at The Trentham Foods Stadium, Whitcombe Road, Stoke-on-Trent.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)