Mustow Green

8°CClear

• Today: 12° / 5° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:06Sunset 16:38

9h 31m 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 · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

• 6.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

111 reported road collisions (2025)

36 killed or seriously injured · 147 casualties · 10.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

27 food businesses within 2 miles

• 26 rated 4–5 ★ (22 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Kidderminster (3.7 km)
• 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£233,740 average▲ 0.3% YoY

Across Wyre Forest · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£825 average monthly rent▼ 2.4% YoY

• 1 bed £584
• 2 bed £741
• 3 bed £897

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

8.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.1 times median annual pay (7.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,416 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: 156.9p · Esso (10 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (10 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

18 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Hogarths Stone Manor LTD (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

101,610 residents in Wyre Forest · 520/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,949
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK3,790
• Net moves+1,159

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 118 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,512 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 49,150)

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

41 schools · 13,746 pupils

27 primary · 5 secondary · 9 other

Ofsted: 19 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wyre Forest

578 CQC-registered services

• Care homes181
• GP practices88
• Dentists126
• Homecare agencies114
• Hospitals & hospices26

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Worcestershire

• Within the Green Belt
• 30 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

135 applications decided

92.6% granted · 125 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Mark Garnier

Conservative

Wyre Forest

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 3
• Con 18
• Grn 1
• Ref 1
• Oth 10

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

• Schools2
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,085 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£693 median full-time weekly pay

3.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,311 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 · 46,247 certificates

15.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

47% low-carbon electricity

Gas 49% · Wind 21% · Nuclear 20% · Imports 5%

197 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 81.9 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Worcestershire): 63.1 women · 63.3 men

56% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

6 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in DY10

• Kidderminster Medical Centre
• Stanmore House Surgery
• The Church Street Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wyre Forest:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth205 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks177 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases167 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND164 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills156 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

• 
  Shenstone, Worcestershire · 0.8 km

  Shenstone is a village in Worcestershire, England, located near Kidderminster. It lies within the civil parish of Stone, which in 2021 had a population of 793.

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  Harvington Hall · 0.9 km

  Harvington Hall is a moated medieval and Elizabethan manor house in the hamlet of Harvington in the civil parish of Chaddesley Corbett, southeast of Kidderminster in the English county of Worcestershire.

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  Stone, Worcestershire · 1.4 km

  Stone is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, it lies two miles south-east of Kidderminster on the A448 road to Bromsgrove. It had a population of 7…

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  Chaddesley Corbett · 2.4 km

  Chaddesley Corbett is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. The Anglican and secular versions of the parish include other named neighbourhoods, once farmsteads or milling p…

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  Wyre Forest School · 2.6 km

  Wyre Forest School is a school in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, for students with complex special needs, and about one fifth of the students are on the autistic spectrum continuum. It caters for ages 7 to 16 and has…

• Spennells · 2.6 km

  Spennells is a suburb of Kidderminster, Worcestershire about a mile south of the town centre. It is located just to the east of the A449 and the railway line between Worcester and Kidderminster. There is a lake and…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)