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Waterhouses

Waterhouses is a town or village in Staffordshire, England. It has 1 restaurant or café, 8 bus stops, and Kingsley & Froghall railway station 6.4 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Waterhouses 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
Staffordshire Moorlands
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°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 20° / 14° · 72% rain
  • Tomorrow: 23° / 13° · Overcast

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

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

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

11 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 10 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Alton Towers Main Entrance (4.9 km)
  • 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

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

EV charging

6 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 7.2 kW
  • Nearest: The Laurels B&B (5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches2

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

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 15 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

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

  • Parks & greens1

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

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 Staffordshire Moorlands:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Cauldon · 1.4 km

    Cauldon or Caldon is a village and former civil parish, 19 miles (31 km) north east of Stafford, now in the parish of Waterhouses, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. In 1…

  • Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway · 1.7 km

    The Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway (L&MVLR) was a narrow gauge railway in Staffordshire, England, that operated between 1904 and 1934. The line mainly carried milk from dairies in the region, acting as a feede…

  • Brown End Quarry · 1.7 km

    Brown End Quarry is a nature reserve of the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, near the village of Waterhouses in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and a regionally important g…

  • Waterhouses railway station (Staffordshire) · 1.8 km

    Waterhouses railway station was a railway station that served the village of Waterhouses, Staffordshire, England. It was opened jointly by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) and the Leek and Manifold Valley Light R…

  • Waterhouses, Staffordshire · 1.9 km

    Waterhouses is a village in the south of the Staffordshire Peak District in England. It is around 8 miles from Leek and Ashbourne, being nearly the halfway point between the two towns on the A523 road, which roughly f…

  • Caldon Low Halt railway station · 2.0 km

    Caldon Low Halt railway station was a railway station near the hamlet of Cauldon, Staffordshire. It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1905 and closed in 1935.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

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