Woodseaves

11°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 7° · 38% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:35

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

• 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

3 reported · August 2026

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Vehicle crime1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: South West Stone · Staffordshire

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

193 reported road collisions (2025)

52 killed or seriously injured · 257 casualties · 14.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

7 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 7 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£260,446 average▲ 3.5% YoY

Across Stafford · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£901 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

• 1 bed £631
• 2 bed £791
• 3 bed £978

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

7.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.5 times median annual pay (7.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,877 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: 169.9p · Asda (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 199.9p · Asda (11.7 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• Sports pitches3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

136,867 residents in Stafford · 229/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,988
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,477
• Net moves+1,511

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 225 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,303 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 64,130)

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

68 schools · 18,003 pupils

49 primary · 6 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 18 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (72%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Stafford

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
• 7 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

148 applications decided

79.1% granted · 117 granted, 31 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Leigh Ingham

Labour

Stafford

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Independent / Green coalition

• Lab 12
• Con 15
• LD 1
• Grn 5
• Oth 7

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,495 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£806 median full-time weekly pay

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

£25,383 disposable income per head (2024)

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

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 63,931 certificates

14.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

47% low-carbon electricity

Gas 52% · Nuclear 15% · Solar 14% · Wind 14%

208 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.6 yrs women · 81.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Staffordshire): 62.5 women · 63 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.0

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

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in ST20

• Gnosall

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stafford:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND319 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills315 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases304 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Ban on sale of disposable BBQs176 local signatures · 22,327 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth174 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

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

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  Woodseaves · 0.3 km

  Woodseaves is a village in the civil parish of High Offley, in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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  Knightley, Staffordshire · 1.1 km

  Knightley is a hamlet and former manor in Staffordshire, England. It is situated near the villages of Gnosall and Woodseaves, now on the B5405 road.

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  Loynton Moss · 1.3 km

  Loynton Moss is a nature reserve of the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, near the village of Woodseaves, in Staffordshire, England. It is adjacent to the Shropshire Union Canal, as it runs from nearby Norbury to High Off…

• Loynton · 1.5 km

  Loynton is a hamlet on the A519 near the villages of Norbury, and Woodseaves in Staffordshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Norbury.

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  High Offley · 1.9 km

  High Offley is a small village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It lies 3 miles southwest of the town of Eccleshall and about 1 mile west of the village of Woodseaves, both on the A519. Woodseaves is the la…

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  Norbury, Staffordshire · 2.5 km

  Norbury is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Stafford, in west Staffordshire, England. The population as taken at the 2011 census was 371.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)