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Upper Tean

Upper Tean is a village in Staffordshire, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has around 1 school, 1 pharmacy, 1 restaurant or café, and 13 bus stops, with Blythe Bridge railway station 5.6 km away. There were around 13 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Upper Tean area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Staffordshire Moorlands area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 95,845 residents at roughly 166 people per km².

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

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 30th of 294 English council areas — better than 90% of them.

Low crime90
Home affordability64
Affordable rents81
Good schools26
Life expectancy62
Low deprivation64
Employment88
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

15°COvercast

  • Today: 20° / 13° · 35% rain
  • Tomorrow: 23° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:30

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

Crime

16 reported · July 2026 45% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences7
  • Anti-social behaviour3
  • Criminal damage & arson2
  • Shoplifting2

Neighbourhood team: Forsbrook & Caverswall · Staffordshire

Local policing priorities

  • Theft affecting businesses in Blythe Bridge
  • Vehicle crime and suspicious activity, mainly taking place overnight with insecure vehicles and homes being targeted.

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

Road safety

134 reported road collisions (2024)

46 killed or seriously injured · 184 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

33 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 27 rated 4–5 ★ (23 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Blythe Bridge (5.6 km)
  • 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Blythe Bridge (5.6 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£227,875 average 9.4% YoY

Across Staffordshire Moorlands · to 2026-06

Detached£336,576
Semi-detached£225,155
Terraced£166,176
Flat£113,062

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£724 average monthly rent 7.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £524
  • 2 bed £681
  • 3 bed £861

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

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Asda (10.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 181.9p · Asda (10.3 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

7 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 60 kW
  • Nearest: RAW GREENE KING MASTER POTTER 2 (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches1
  • 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)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 204 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

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%)

58inspected 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

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Upper Tean)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 29 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

81 applications decided

69.1% granted · 56 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Dr Allison Gardner

Labour

Stoke-on-Trent South

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • NoClosure motion
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour (minority)

  • Lab 20
  • Con 22
  • LD 1
  • Grn 2
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 10

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools3
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens2
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,535 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£770 median full-time weekly pay

2.1% 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

65% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 28% · Gas 25% · Wind 20% · Biomass 17%

124 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 81.3 yrs 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

Local petitions

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

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

Notable places nearby

  • Tean, Staffordshire · 0.4 km

    Tean is a large village in the civil parish of Checkley in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is around 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Stoke-on-Trent. The River Tean runs…

  • Totmonslow · 1.1 km

    Totmonslow is a hundred in the county of Staffordshire, England. The hundred is in the north-east of Staffordshire and is named after the hamlet of the same name, which is a half mile east of Draycott in the Moors. Th…

  • Tean railway station · 1.6 km

    Tean railway station was a railway station located on the Cheadle Branch Line at Totmonslow, Staffordshire. It was opened as Totmonslow in 1892 and was the terminus of the line until it reached Cheadle in 1901.

  • Uttoxeter Road · 1.9 km

    Uttoxeter Road is a cricket ground located along the Uttoxeter Road between the villages of Lower Tean and Checkley in Staffordshire. Completely surrounded by countryside, it is the home of Checkley Cricket Club.

  • Freehay · 2.0 km

    Freehay is a village and former hamlet in the civil parish of Cheadle, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Brookhouses is located to the southeast of Cheadle.

  • Checkley · 2.4 km

    Checkley is a village and civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands in the English county of Staffordshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Upper Tean?
Upper Tean is a town in Staffordshire, England, in the Staffordshire Moorlands local authority.
How deprived is Upper Tean?
The Staffordshire Moorlands local authority, which includes Upper Tean, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.