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Ellenhall

Ellenhall is a village in Staffordshire, England. There are 5 bus stops in the area, and the nearest railway station is Stafford, located 6.5 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ellenhall area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Stafford area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 136,867 residents at roughly 229 people per km².

Council
Stafford
County
Staffordshire
Constituency
Stafford
Police force
Staffordshire
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My Area Score

Good

Ranked 74th of 294 English council areas — better than 75% of them.

Low crime69
Home affordability61
Affordable rents69
Good schools3
Life expectancy71
Low deprivation76
Employment69
Low council tax80

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

9°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 11° / 4° · 16% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:36

9h 29m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

193 reported road collisions (2025)

52 killed or seriously injured · 257 casualties · 14.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

30 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 25 rated 4–5 ★ (19 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Norton Bridge (4.7 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£260,446 average▲ 3.5% YoY

Across Stafford · to 2026-08

Detached£397,417
Semi-detached£252,170
Terraced£196,862
Flat£112,477

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£901 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £631
  • 2 bed £791
  • 3 bed £978

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

Affordability

7.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.5 times median annual pay (7.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,877 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: 168.7p · Asda (9.2 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 195.7p · Asda (9.2 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

5 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Roadchef Stafford Southbound Services (6.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

136,867 residents in Stafford · 229/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 60%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,988
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,477
  • Net moves+1,511

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 225 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,303 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 64,130)

A £1,535
B £1,791
C £2,047
D £2,303
E £2,814
F £3,326
G £3,838
H £4,605

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

Schools

68 schools · 18,003 pupils

49 primary · 6 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 18 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (72%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Alleyne's Academy
  • Blessed William Howard Catholic School
  • King Edward VI High School
  • Sir Graham Balfour High School
  • The Weston Road Academy
  • Walton High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Stafford

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
  • 5 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

148 applications decided

79.1% granted · 117 granted, 31 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Labour / Independent / Green coalition

  • Lab 12
  • Con 15
  • LD 1
  • Grn 5
  • Oth 7

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

6,495 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£806 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,383 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 63,931 certificates

14.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 84.6 yrs women · 81.6 yrs men

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

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.2
  • Feeling worthwhile7.5
  • Happiness yesterday7.1
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.0

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

Health services

2 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in ST21

  • Crown Surgery
  • Hmp/Yoi Drake Hall

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

  • Ellenhall · 0.1 km

    Ellenhall is a small Staffordshire hamlet roughly 2.5 miles south of Eccleshall originally comprising part of the extensive estates of the Earl of Lichfield. The population as taken at the 2011 census was 144. The ha…

  • Ranton Abbey · 2.0 km

    Ranton Abbey or Ranton Priory was an Augustinian Priory in Ranton, Staffordshire, England, built c.1150 by Robert fitz Noel of Ellenhall. The priory flourished in the 13th century as a subordinate house to Haughmond A…

  • Abbey House, Ranton · 2.0 km

    Abbey House is an early 19th-century ruined stately home in Ranton, Staffordshire, England.

  • Walton Hall Academy · 2.1 km

    Walton Hall Academy is a mixed special school of approximately 150 pupils. The school is based in Eccleshall, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building, and part of the Shaw Education Trust.

  • Stafford (constituency) · 2.5 km

    Stafford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Leigh Ingham from the Labour Party.

  • Eagle House, Eccleshall · 2.8 km

    Eagle House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire town of Eccleshall, England, which is currently an award-winning bed and breakfast and Self catering Apartment.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Ellenhall?
Ellenhall is a town in Staffordshire, England, in the Stafford local authority.
How deprived is Ellenhall?
The Stafford local authority, which includes Ellenhall, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.