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Kingsley Holt

Kingsley Holt is a town or village in Staffordshire, England. It has one restaurant or café, 10 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Kingsley & Froghall, 1.2 km away. There were around 4 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly other theft. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Kingsley Holt area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Staffordshire Moorlands area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 95,845 residents at roughly 166 people per km².

Council
Staffordshire Moorlands
County
Staffordshire
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands
Police force
Staffordshire
68/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 31st of 294 English council areas — better than 89% of them.

Low crime89
Home affordability64
Affordable rents81
Good schools25
Life expectancy60
Low deprivation68
Employment86
Low council tax74

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

10°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 10° / 5° · 16% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:35

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

8 reported · August 2026▲ 33% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences4
  • Criminal damage & arson2
  • Other theft1
  • Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Waterhouses Rural · Staffordshire

Local policing priorities

  • Rural crime, including theft of motor vehicles and machinery, particularly affecting the farming community.
  • Road safety and speeding.

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

Road safety

163 reported road collisions (2025)

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

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

63 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 55 rated 4–5 ★ (44 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Kingsley & Froghall (1.2 km)
  • 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Blythe Bridge (8.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£224,481 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across Staffordshire Moorlands · to 2026-08

Detached£331,178
Semi-detached£221,597
Terraced£164,127
Flat£112,093

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 171.9p · Asda (10 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 195.9p · Asda (10 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

5 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 60 kW
  • Nearest: Morrisons Cheadle (2.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches6
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

95,845 residents in Staffordshire Moorlands · 166/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,338 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,559
B £1,819
C £2,078
D £2,338
E £2,858
F £3,377
G £3,897
H £4,676

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Blythe Bridge High SchoolGood
  • Endon High SchoolGood
  • Moorside High SchoolGood
  • Painsley Catholic CollegeGood
  • Leek High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Westwood CollegeRequires improvement
  • Biddulph High School
  • The Cheadle Academy

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

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
  • 33 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

111 applications decided

82% granted · 91 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Dame Karen Bradley

Conservative

Staffordshire Moorlands

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour (minority)

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

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens2
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,530 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

55% low-carbon electricity

Gas 41% · Nuclear 18% · Wind 17% · Solar 16%

167 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

6 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in ST10

  • Tardis Surgery
  • Allen Street Clinic
  • Well Street Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Staffordshire Moorlands:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Kingsley and Froghall railway station · 1.1 km

    Kingsley and Froghall is a railway station serving the villages of Froghall and Kingsley in Staffordshire, England. It is the southern terminus of the Churnet Valley Railway.

  • Froghall · 1.2 km

    Froghall is a village situated approximately ten miles to the east of Stoke-on-Trent and two miles north of Cheadle in Staffordshire, England. Population details as taken at the 2011 Census can be found under Kingsley…

  • Woodhead Hall · 1.4 km

    Woodhead Hall is a country house at Cheadle in Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building.

  • Kingsley, Staffordshire · 1.4 km

    Kingsley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands near to Cheadle, and situated on the A52 from Stoke on Trent to Ashbourne. The civil parish population taken at the 2011 census was 2,204.

  • Uttoxeter Canal · 1.6 km

    The Uttoxeter Canal was a thirteen-mile extension of the Caldon Canal running from Froghall as far as Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It was authorised in 1797, but did not open until 1811. With the exception of…

  • Whiston, Staffordshire Moorlands · 2.1 km

    Whiston is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Kingsley. It is located within the Churnet Valley on the A52 ro…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

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