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Worcestershire: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Worcestershire County Council: County (upper tier), England, West Midlands. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000034.

Council website · Publication scheme

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Worcestershire for 2026–27: £1,760.80. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (1 academy converter, 1 new provision), 3 closed (2 closure, 1 academy converter)

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Worcestershire reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Worcestershire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education services£409.7 million
Highways and transport services£38.6 million
Children's social care£173.6 million
Adult social care£284.2 million
Public health£41.1 million
Housing services (general fund only)£1.8 million
Cultural and related services£13.4 million
Environmental and regulatory services£45.6 million
Planning and development services£3.1 million
Police servicesnone budgeted
Fire and rescue servicesnone budgeted
Central services£8.3 million
Other services£12.2 million
Total service expenditure£1,031.6 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Life in Worcestershire: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Worcestershire.

People living here
624,209 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age
45 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year
£25,444 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax
£613 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty
23.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
3.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home
£288,772 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
7.8 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women
63.1 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men
63.3 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person
5.3 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
84.4% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
139.2 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here
26,930 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Worcestershire from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

57 seats in 2026. Run by: Reform UK, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 25, Conservative and Unionist 12, Green Party (E&W) 8, Liberal Democrats 7, Independent / Other 3, Labour Party 2.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 57 councillors, by ward
  • Alan Bailes (Independent / Other) — Alvechurch
  • Peter Turner (Reform UK) — Beacon
  • Alan Amos (Reform UK) — Bedwardine
  • Dan Morehead (Conservative and Unionist) — Bewdley
  • Seb James (Conservative and Unionist) — Bowbrook
  • Adrian Hardman (Conservative and Unionist) — Breddon
  • Emma Kearsey (Conservative and Unionist) — Broadway
  • Josh Robinson (Liberal Democrats) — Bromsgrove Central
  • Sam Evans (Liberal Democrats) — Bromsgrove East
  • Sam Ammar (Liberal Democrats) — Bromsgrove South
  • Nik Price (Reform UK) — Bromsgrove West
  • Marcus Hart (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaddersley
  • Mel Allcott (Liberal Democrats) — Claines
  • Karen May (Conservative and Unionist) — Clent Hills
  • Jenny Shaw (Reform UK) — Cookley, Wolverley & Wribbenhall
  • Martin Allen (Green Party (E&W)) — Croome
  • Dan Birch (Conservative and Unionist) — Droitwich East
  • Richard Morris (Conservative and Unionist) — Droitwich West
  • Sam Bastow (Reform UK) — Evesham North West
  • Michele Hulme (Reform UK) — Evesham South
  • Mel Fordington (Conservative and Unionist) — Hallow
  • Satinder Bell (Reform UK) — Harvington
  • Hannah Robson (Green Party (E&W)) — Littletons
  • Malcolm Victory (Green Party (E&W)) — Malvern Chase
  • Paul Bennett (Liberal Democrats) — Malvern Langland
  • Chris McSweeny (Liberal Democrats) — Malvern Link
  • Natalie McVey (Green Party (E&W)) — Malvern Trinity
  • Dave Aubrey (Reform UK) — Nunnery
  • Tony Miller (Conservative and Unionist) — Ombersley
  • Dan Boatright-Greene (Liberal Democrats) — Pershore
  • Tom Wells (Independent / Other) — Powick & Longdon
  • Jabba Riaz (Labour Party) — Rainbow Hill & Fort Royal
  • Dave Edmonds (Reform UK) — Redditch Central
  • Richard Tudge (Reform UK) — Redditch Central
  • David Taylor (Independent / Other) — Redditch East
  • Jo Monk (Reform UK) — Redditch East
  • Roger Bennett (Reform UK) — Redditch South
  • Sue Eacock (Reform UK) — Redditch South
  • Ashley Monk (Reform UK) — Redditch West
  • Stephen Foster (Reform UK) — Redditch West
  • Tor Pingree (Green Party (E&W)) — Riverside
  • Anthony Upton (Reform UK) — St Barnabas
  • Bill Hopkins (Reform UK) — St Chads
  • Mark Crosby (Reform UK) — St Georges
  • Richard Udall (Labour Party) — St John
  • Matthew Jones (Reform UK) — St Johns
  • Louis Stephen (Green Party (E&W)) — St Peter
  • Rob Wharton (Reform UK) — St Peters
  • Matt Jenkins (Green Party (E&W)) — St Stephen
  • Karl Perks (Reform UK) — Stourport Areley Kings & Riverside
  • Ian Cresswell (Reform UK) — Stourport Mitton
  • Justin Bowen (Reform UK) — Tenbury
  • Linda Robinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Upton Snodsbury
  • Owen Cleary (Reform UK) — Warndon & Elbury Park
  • Andrew Cross (Green Party (E&W)) — Warndon Villages
  • Mark Dunkley (Reform UK) — Woodvale
  • Adam Kent (Conservative and Unionist) — Wythall

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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