Talke and Talke Pits

20°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 23° / 15° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:29

12h 50m 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

94 reported · July 2026▲ 29% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences37
• Anti-social behaviour20
• Shoplifting11
• Criminal damage & arson7

Neighbourhood team: Kidsgrove Parish · Staffordshire

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

122 reported road collisions (2024)

31 killed or seriously injured · 177 casualties · 9.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

161 food businesses within 2 miles

• 135 rated 4–5 ★ (127 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Kidsgrove (1.7 km)
• 30 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£209,547 average▲ 6.6% YoY

Across Newcastle-under-Lyme · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£830 average monthly rent▲ 8.4% YoY

• 1 bed £578
• 2 bed £741
• 3 bed £892

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

6.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.2 times median annual pay (5.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (6.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (5.6 km)

19 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

31 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 170 kW
• Nearest: Lidl-Hardingswood (1.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches18
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

123,299 residents in Newcastle-under-Lyme · 584/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 150 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,334 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (43% of 58,590)

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

64 schools · 17,540 pupils

41 primary · 9 secondary · 14 other

Ofsted: 22 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

55inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Newcastle-under-Lyme

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
• 20 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

106 applications decided

92.5% granted · 98 granted, 8 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

David Williams

Labour

Stoke-on-Trent North

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 2
• Con 15
• Ref 26

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens4
• Restaurants & cafés14

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,290 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Sales Associate

Source: Adzuna

£692 median full-time weekly pay

2.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,129 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 54,820 certificates

17.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

87% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Nuclear 27% · Gas 8% · Imports 6%

33 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stoke-on-Trent North:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills626 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office384 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s348 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership310 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases280 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Talke · 0.4 km

  Talke is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in Staffordshire, England. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Kidsgr…

• Talke (ward) · 0.5 km

  Talke was a ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It covered the villages of Talke and Talke Pits. As of the 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election this ward has been merged with Butt Lane ward, to…

• Talke Pits · 0.8 km

  Talke Pits is a former mining village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, close to the Cheshire border and the village of Talke. Population details taken at the 2011 census can be found und…

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  Kidsgrove Athletic F.C. · 1.0 km

  Kidsgrove Athletic Football Club is an English football club based in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division One West. The team, nicknamed "The Grove", play their h…

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  Parrot's Drumble · 1.2 km

  Parrot's Drumble is a nature reserve of the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. It is an area of woodland next to the village of Talke Pits, and about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire, England.

• Clough Hall · 1.2 km

  Clough Hall is a suburb of Kidsgrove in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)