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Wick (Wychavon)

Wick is a village in Worcestershire, England. It has around 8 restaurants and cafés, 1 pharmacy, 5 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Pershore, 3.4 km away. There were around 20 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 Wick (Wychavon) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Wychavon area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 132,492 residents at roughly 200 people per km².

Council
Wychavon
County
Worcestershire
Constituency
Mid Worcestershire
Police force
West Mercia
61/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 68th of 294 English council areas — better than 77% of them.

Home affordability41
Affordable rents68
Good schools49
Life expectancy79
Low deprivation60
Employment69
Low council tax66

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. Scored on 80% of the full weighting — some data isn't available here. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

7°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 10° / 5° · 21% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:32

9h 22m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.3 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

Crime

Crime data is temporarily unavailable.

Road safety

155 reported road collisions (2025)

61 killed or seriously injured · 197 casualties · 11.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

76 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 50 rated 4–5 ★ (44 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Pershore (3.4 km)
  • 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Pershore (3.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£322,210 average▼ 0.4% YoY

Across Wychavon · to 2026-08

Detached£483,526
Semi-detached£294,327
Terraced£231,639
Flat£148,127

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£954 average monthly rent▲ 3.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £671
  • 2 bed £872
  • 3 bed £1,075

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

Affordability

8.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.9 times median annual pay (8.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,694 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: 175.9p · Asda (8.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 199.9p · Asda (8.8 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

9 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 360 kW
  • Nearest: Asda Pershore Supermarket (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Gyms1
  • Sports pitches8
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

132,492 residents in Wychavon · 200/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,982
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,362
  • Net moves+1,620

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 178 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,373 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 62,210)

A £1,582
B £1,846
C £2,110
D £2,373
E £2,901
F £3,428
G £3,955
H £4,746

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

Schools

70 schools · 15,497 pupils

50 primary · 4 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 23 of 26 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Prince Henry's High SchoolOutstanding
  • Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form CentreGood
  • The De Montfort SchoolGood
  • Pershore High SchoolRequires improvement

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wychavon

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

253 applications decided

78.7% granted · 199 granted, 54 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Lab 1
  • Con 26
  • LD 8
  • Grn 6
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools4
  • Pharmacies3
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens9
  • Restaurants & cafés21

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,340 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£718 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£28,083 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 64,075 certificates

15% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 85.5 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

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

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.2
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in WR10

  • Abbottswood Medical Centre
  • Pershore Medical Practice
  • Pch Ward

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Droitwich and Evesham:

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

Frequently asked questions

Where is Wick (Wychavon)?
Wick (Wychavon) is a town in Worcestershire, England, in the Wychavon local authority.
How deprived is Wick (Wychavon)?
The Wychavon local authority, which includes Wick (Wychavon), is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.