Kingstone (East Staffordshire)

8°CCloudy

• Today: 11° / 6° · 53% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:31

9h 21m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

1 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Needwood · Staffordshire

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

230 reported road collisions (2025)

53 killed or seriously injured · 299 casualties · 18.5 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

£229,876 average▲ 2% YoY

Across East Staffordshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£858 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

• 1 bed £614
• 2 bed £775
• 3 bed £943

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

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

1,751 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: 179.9p · Asda (6.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 201.9p · Asda (6.2 km)

2 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,175
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,835
• Net moves+1,340

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 156 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

6% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

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

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

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
• 11 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

246 applications decided

81.3% granted · 200 granted, 46 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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)

5,905 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£742 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% 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

52% low-carbon electricity

Gas 46% · Wind 29% · Biomass 21% · Imports 3%

205 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.3 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Staffordshire): 62.5 women · 63 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

5 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in ST14

• Balance Street
• Mill View Surgery
• Northgate Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Lichfield:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills445 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND238 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth192 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks157 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Reform UK Bail Law: Require Passport Surrender for Serious Criminal Charges117 local signatures · 6,379 nationwide

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

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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)