Thornton (Bradford)

15°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 11° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:35

13h 4m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Headingley Kerbside, United Kingdom

89 reported · July 2026▼ 12% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences40
• Shoplifting12
• Other theft11
• Criminal damage & arson5

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Bradford West · West Yorkshire

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

1,030 reported road collisions (2024)

294 killed or seriously injured · 1,332 casualties · 18.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

222 food businesses within 2 miles

• 179 rated 4–5 ★ (139 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Frizinghall (6.3 km)
• 26 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£185,028 average▲ 6% YoY

Across Bradford · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£749 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £553
• 2 bed £679
• 3 bed £813

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

5.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.2 times median annual pay (4.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (5.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 177.7p · Asda (9.2 km)

31 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

66 charging locations within ~8 km

• 27 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Squirrel Hill Holiday Cottages (1.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches6
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

546,410 residents in Bradford · 1,491/km²

• Under 16: 23%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 15%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 21 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

34% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,361 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (41% of 223,950)

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

231 schools · 99,744 pupils

157 primary · 32 secondary · 42 other

Ofsted: 85 of 95 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

209inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bradford

438 CQC-registered services

• Care homes107
• GP practices76
• Dentists106
• Homecare agencies109
• Hospitals & hospices13

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 5 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bradford

• Not in the Green Belt
• 134 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

531 applications decided

86.6% granted · 460 granted, 71 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Naz Shah

Labour

Bradford West

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK (minority)

• Lab 17
• Con 18
• LD 4
• Grn 9
• Ref 28
• Oth 14

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

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens30
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

19,280 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

95 jobs advertised · £29,999 avg

e.g. Learning Disabilities Team Manager, Become a Programming Tutor in Thornton (Middlesbrough) – Flexible & Remote, Online Economics Tutoring Job in Thornton (Bradford) – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£671 median full-time weekly pay

6.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£18,641 disposable income per head (2024)

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

33% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 284,695 certificates

15.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

84% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 50% · Wind 24% · Imports 9% · Gas 7%

88 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.3 yrs women · 78 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.2 women · 57.4 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bradford West:

• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 528 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s334 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Introduce weekend access to death certification for burials223 local signatures · 9,621 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership162 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office117 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  Brontë Birthplace · 0.2 km

  The Brontë Birthplace is a house in Market Street, Thornton, West Yorkshire, England, where writers Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and their brother Branwell, were born between 1816 and 1820.

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  Thornton, West Yorkshire · 0.2 km

  Thornton is a village and former civil parish, within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies 6 miles (9.7 km) to the west of the city centre of Bradford, and together wit…

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  Thornton Viaduct · 0.4 km

  Thornton Viaduct is a disused railway bridge in Thornton, in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in northern England. It opened in 1878, having been built for the Great Northern Railway, closed in 1966, and re-opene…

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  Thornton railway station · 0.8 km

  Thornton railway station was a station on the Keighley-Queensbury section of the Queensbury Lines which ran between Keighley, Bradford and Halifax via Queensbury. The station served the village of Thornton, West Yorks…

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  Egypt, Bradford · 1.4 km

  Egypt is a hamlet near Thornton, in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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  Thornton and Allerton · 1.6 km

  Thornton and Allerton is a ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the villages of Thornton and Allerton around which it is drawn.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)