Springhill

18°CSunny

• Today: 23° / 16° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:28

12h 49m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

8US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

184 reported road collisions (2024)

37 killed or seriously injured · 253 casualties · 16.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

250 food businesses within 2 miles

• 195 rated 4–5 ★ (147 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Bloxwich North (1.8 km)
• 7 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£310,258 average▲ 5.8% YoY

Across South Staffordshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£949 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £659
• 2 bed £849
• 3 bed £1,008

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

7.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.2 times median annual pay (8.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (6.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (6.1 km)

43 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

51 charging locations within ~8 km

• 30 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 360 kW
• Nearest: Hilton Park, Southbound Supercharger (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches12
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

110,471 residents in South Staffordshire · 271/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 235 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,314 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (24% of 49,350)

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

59 schools · 16,630 pupils

36 primary · 7 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 19 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

50inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South 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
• 3 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

176 applications decided

82.4% granted · 145 granted, 31 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Conservative majority

• Lab 2
• Con 28
• LD 4
• Grn 2
• Oth 5

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,615 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised · £35,001 avg

e.g. Depute Head Teacher - St Mark's Primary School - ERN06530, Become a French Tutor in Springhill – Flexible & Remote, Barista - Store 83689, Lichfield - Walsall Road

Source: Adzuna

£765 median full-time weekly pay

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

£26,228 disposable income per head (2024)

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

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 42,520 certificates

13.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 80.3 yrs men

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile8.5
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office419 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills355 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership329 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s281 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test261 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Springhill, South Staffordshire · 0.0 km

  Springhill is a hamlet about a mile from Essington village, in the civil parish of Essington, in the South Staffordshire district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 538.

• Wednesbury Town F.C. · 0.8 km

  Wednesbury Town F.C. was the name of a football clubs based in Wednesbury, West Midlands, England.

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  Hilton Park services · 1.6 km

  Hilton Park services is a motorway service station, between junctions 10a and 11 of the M6 motorway in Staffordshire, England. The nearest city is Wolverhampton.

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  Essington · 1.7 km

  Essington is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of the city of Wolverhampton. Nearby are the towns of Bloxwich and Cannock and the vill…

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  Bloxwich North railway station · 1.7 km

  Bloxwich North railway station serves the town of Bloxwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway.

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  Newtown, Staffordshire · 1.7 km

  Newtown is an area of the civil parish of Essington in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)