Kingstone (East Staffordshire)

16°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 22° / 16° · 82% rain
• Tomorrow: 24° / 15° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:30

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

4 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Public order1

Neighbourhood team: Needwood · Staffordshire

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

171 reported road collisions (2024)

43 killed or seriously injured · 202 casualties · 13.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

5 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Uttoxeter (5.2 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£225,551 average▲ 5.2% YoY

Across East Staffordshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£851 average monthly rent▲ 5.5% YoY

• 1 bed £610
• 2 bed £770
• 3 bed £936

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

6.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.9 times median annual pay (6.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 166.9p · ESSO (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · ESSO (11.8 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

6 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: ASDA Drovers Close Uttoxeter (4.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches3
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

124,022 residents in East Staffordshire · 320/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 157 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,351 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (33% of 56,250)

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

62 schools · 22,302 pupils

43 primary · 9 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 25 of 27 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · East 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

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

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

171 applications decided

94.2% granted · 161 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Dave Robertson

Labour

Lichfield

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 21
• Con 15
• Oth 1

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,835 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£742 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,329 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 62,281 certificates

15.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

70% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 38% · Wind 30% · Gas 30% · Nuclear 2%

163 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.3 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Lichfield:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills442 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office422 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership350 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test287 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s281 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Kingstone, Staffordshire · 0.1 km

  Kingstone is a village and civil parish within the English county of Staffordshire.

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  Grindley railway station · 2.2 km

  Grindley railway station served the village of Grindley, near Gratwich, in Staffordshire, England, between 1867 and 1939.

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  Loxley Hall · 2.5 km

  Loxley Hall is an early-19th-century country house near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, now occupied by a Staffordshire County Council special school for boys with challenging behaviour difficulties. It is a Grade II* liste…

• Bagot's Wood · 2.6 km

  Bagot's Wood is the largest extant piece of the ancient Needwood Forest, located near to Abbots Bromley, in Staffordshire, England. The forest derives its name from the Bagot family, seated for centuries at Blithfie…

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  Chartley Moss · 3.6 km

  Chartley Moss is a 44 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire, notified in 1987. The area has been designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Ramsar Convention protected wet…

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  Bromshall railway station · 3.6 km

  Bromshall railway station served the village of Bramshall, in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England, between 1848 and 1865.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)