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Bulkington

Bulkington is a village in Warwickshire, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has around 2 restaurants and cafés, 33 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Bedworth, 2.7 km away. There were around 41 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 Bulkington area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Nuneaton and Bedworth area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 134,197 residents at roughly 1,700 people per km².

Council
Nuneaton and Bedworth
County
Warwickshire
Constituency
Rugby
Police force
Warwickshire
40/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 223rd of 294 English council areas — better than 24% of them.

Low crime42
Home affordability67
Affordable rents62
Good schools45
Life expectancy21
Low deprivation30
Employment28
Low council tax32

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

11°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 6° · 44% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 4° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:31

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Coventry Allesley, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.2 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

36 reported · August 2026▲ 6% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences17
  • Anti-social behaviour8
  • Burglary5
  • Criminal damage & arson3

Neighbourhood team: Bedworth East · Warwickshire

Local policing priorities

  • Retail Crime and Prolific Offender Management
  • Anti-Social Behaviour

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

Road safety

173 reported road collisions (2025)

40 killed or seriously injured · 215 casualties · 12.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

98 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 85 rated 4–5 ★ (81 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Bedworth (2.8 km)
  • 32 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Bedworth (2.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£226,730 average▼ 0.2% YoY

Across Nuneaton and Bedworth · to 2026-08

Detached£348,119
Semi-detached£226,445
Terraced£181,265
Flat£111,371

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£925 average monthly rent▲ 3.4% YoY

  • 1 bed £655
  • 2 bed £837
  • 3 bed £1,014

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

Affordability

7.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.1 times median annual pay (7.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,699 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 138.8p · AppleGreen (6.4 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (6.4 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

150 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 20 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: High Street, Bedworth (3.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Sports pitches10
  • Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

134,197 residents in Nuneaton and Bedworth · 1,700/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,597
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,606
  • Net moves+1,991

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

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 88 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,502 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (34% of 61,560)

A £1,668
B £1,946
C £2,224
D £2,502
E £3,058
F £3,614
G £4,170
H £5,004

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

Schools

55 schools · 20,300 pupils

35 primary · 8 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 21 of 24 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • George Eliot AcademyGood
  • Nicholas Chamberlaine SchoolGood
  • Nuneaton AcademyInadequate
  • Ash Green School
  • Etone College
  • Higham Lane North Academy
  • Higham Lane School
  • St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Nuneaton and Bedworth

Care & health services

581 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes172
  • GP practices93
  • Dentists121
  • Homecare agencies143
  • Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Warwickshire

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Bulkington)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 6 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

65 applications decided

90.8% granted · 59 granted, 6 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

John Slinger

Labour

Rugby

Recent votes:

  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 8: Capital gains tax (business asset disposal relief)
  • AyeBudget Resolution No.7: Increase in rate of banking surcharge for temporary period
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 3: Income tax (default, property and savings rates)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Reform UK (minority)

  • Lab 10
  • Con 9
  • Grn 3
  • Ref 16

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens3
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,370 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

6 jobs advertised · £32,424 avg

e.g. Work from Home (Researcher), Work from Home Independent Contractor, Early Years Practitioner

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£689 median full-time weekly pay

4.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,856 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 60,769 certificates

14.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

56% low-carbon electricity

Gas 41% · Wind 26% · Biomass 22% · Solar 7%

190 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 79 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Warwickshire): 62.9 women · 63.3 men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction6.8
  • Feeling worthwhile7.1
  • Happiness yesterday7.0
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in CV12

  • Bedworth Health Centre
  • Bulkington Surgery
  • Woodlands Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Rugby:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Bulkington · 0.1 km

    Bulkington is a large village and former civil parish near Bedworth, in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2011 census the ward had a population of 6,146 decreasing slightly to 6,080 a…

  • Bulkington railway station · 1.0 km

    Bulkington was a railway station on the Trent Valley Line serving the village of Bulkington, Warwickshire, England. The station was opened along with the line in 1847, and was closed in 1931.

  • Bramcote, Warwickshire · 1.1 km

    Bramcote is a village in the Rugby district of Warwickshire in England. It lies approximately 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south-east of Nuneaton, between the Ashby Canal and the River Anker. Historically, Bramcote was a disper…

  • Barnacle, Warwickshire · 2.1 km

    Barnacle is a hamlet in the county of Warwickshire, England, in the civil parish of Shilton and Barnacle. Historically it was divided between the parishes of Shilton and Bulkington.

  • Marston Jabbett · 2.2 km

    Marston Jabbet is a hamlet near Bulkington, Warwickshire, England. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 Marston Jabbett had a population of 93.

  • RAF Bramcote · 2.3 km

    Royal Air Force Bramcote, or more simply RAF Bramcote, is a former Royal Air Force station located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England used during the Second World War. It was later transfer…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Bulkington?
Bulkington is a town in Warwickshire, England, in the Nuneaton and Bedworth local authority.
How deprived is Bulkington?
The Nuneaton and Bedworth local authority, which includes Bulkington, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.