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Woodseaves

Woodseaves is a village in Staffordshire, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has 7 bus stops. There were around 1 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 Woodseaves area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Stafford area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 136,867 residents at roughly 229 people per km².

Council
Stafford
County
Staffordshire
Constituency
Stone
Police force
Staffordshire
61/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 75th of 294 English council areas — better than 74% of them.

Low crime69
Home affordability61
Affordable rents69
Good schools3
Life expectancy72
Low deprivation73
Employment72
Low council tax80

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

17°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 22° / 15° · 79% rain
  • Tomorrow: 23° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:34

12h 58m 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

2 reported · July 2026 33% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: South West Stone · Staffordshire

Local policing priorities

  • Last year, issues were raised with the MOD (Ministry of Defence) Swynnerton base and the Afghan families that are being resettled in the…
  • Tackling anti-social behaviour around Eccleshall High Street, Newport Road and the park areas.

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

Road safety

227 reported road collisions (2024)

52 killed or seriously injured · 291 casualties · 16.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

7 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 7 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Norton Bridge (8.5 km):

Loading live departures…

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£259,721 average 4.4% YoY

Across Stafford · to 2026-06

Detached£397,717
Semi-detached£251,405
Terraced£195,351
Flat£111,677

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£898 average monthly rent 6.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £629
  • 2 bed £789
  • 3 bed £974

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

Affordability

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · Esso (8.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Asda (11.7 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

136,867 residents in Stafford · 229/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 233 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,303 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,535
B £1,791
C £2,047
D £2,303
E £2,814
F £3,326
G £3,838
H £4,605

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

Schools

66 schools · 18,003 pupils

49 primary · 6 secondary · 11 other

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

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

Secondary schools:

  • Alleyne's Academy
  • Blessed William Howard Catholic School
  • King Edward VI High School
  • Sir Graham Balfour High School
  • The Weston Road Academy
  • Walton High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Stafford

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
  • 7 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

132 applications decided

77.3% granted · 102 granted, 30 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Leigh Ingham

Labour

Stafford

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour / Independent / Green coalition

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

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,350 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£806 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% 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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

85% low-carbon electricity

Wind 40% · Nuclear 30% · Biomass 15% · Gas 10%

55 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.6 yrs women · 81.6 yrs men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • 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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stafford:

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

Notable places nearby

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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)

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Frequently asked questions

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