Ingbirchworth

14°COvercast

• Today: 15° / 10° · 62% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 14° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:32

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Sheffield Devonshire Green, United Kingdom

4 reported · July 2026▼ 64% YoY

• Burglary2
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Violence & sexual offences1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Barnsley West · South Yorkshire

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

605 reported road collisions (2024)

175 killed or seriously injured · 780 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

85 food businesses within 2 miles

• 70 rated 4–5 ★ (60 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Denby Dale (2.7 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£205,773 average▲ 5.4% YoY

Across Kirklees · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£780 average monthly rent▲ 12.6% YoY

• 1 bed £582
• 2 bed £710
• 3 bed £864

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

6.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.3 times median annual pay (5.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (10.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Morrisons (11.5 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Superstore (3.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches4
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

433,216 residents in Kirklees · 1,060/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 87 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,441 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (44% of 193,280)

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

203 schools · 66,199 pupils

144 primary · 24 secondary · 35 other

Ofsted: 72 of 88 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

182inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Kirklees

395 CQC-registered services

• Care homes127
• GP practices80
• Dentists81
• Homecare agencies85
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kirklees

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

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

476 applications decided

89.1% granted · 424 granted, 52 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Reform UK (minority)

• Con 9
• LD 6
• Grn 12
• Ref 26
• Oth 16

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,450 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£700 median full-time weekly pay

4.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,911 disposable income per head (2024)

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

38% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 195,699 certificates

15% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58 women · 57.8 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Penistone and Stocksbridge:

• Make carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in all holiday accommodation2,243 local signatures · 22,957 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office376 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s350 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership292 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership241 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth · 0.3 km

  Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth is a civil parish in the Barnsley district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. It contains the hamlet of Gunthwaite and the village of Ingbirchworth. At the 2001 Census, the parish…

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  Ingbirchworth · 0.4 km

  Ingbirchworth is a village in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth in the Barnsley district of South Yorkshire, England. It is close to the boundary with Kirklees in West Yorkshire. At the 2001 Census, the…

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  Upper Denby · 1.4 km

  Upper Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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  Gunthwaite · 1.8 km

  Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the boundary of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. Until 1974 it was i…

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  Royd Moor Wind Farm · 2.2 km

  The Royd Moor Wind Farm is located at Penistone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, and consists of thirteen 450 kW turbines. The site is located approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north west of Penistone, above the…

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  Penistone Grammar School · 2.4 km

  Penistone Grammar School (PGS) is a large co-educational secondary school with a sixth form located in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)