Talke and Talke Pits

What is it like to live in Talke and Talke Pits?

Homes sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 83 of the 89 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 89 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Kidsgrove, 1.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Talke and Talke Pits?

Homes in Talke and Talke Pits sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 33 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £194,000 from 44 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £235,000 15 sales
• Semi-detached £183,750 14 sales
• Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
• Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole ST7 district, Talke and Talke Pits's main postcode district: a typical £220,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Talke and Talke Pits: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Talke and Talke Pits?

None of the 89 postcodes now in use in Talke and Talke Pits came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 44 homes sold in Talke and Talke Pits were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the ST7 district, 2%.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Talke and Talke Pits?

Ofcom reports on 89 of the 89 postcodes in Talke and Talke Pits. At 83 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Talke and Talke Pits at risk of flooding?

None of the 89 postcodes in Talke and Talke Pits is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Talke and Talke Pits?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Talke and Talke Pits. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Talke and Talke Pits?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Talke and Talke Pits is Kidsgrove Rail Station, 1.7 km away in a straight line.

• Kidsgrove Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
• Alsager Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
• Longport Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Talke and Talke Pits?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Talke and Talke Pits. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Talke Pits Clinic Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01782 783565 550 mWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Talke and Talke Pits safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 898 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Talke and Talke Pits over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 17, drugs 17, possession of weapons 5, bicycle theft 4, robbery 4.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Talke and Talke Pits?

District, borough or city council

Newcastle-under-Lyme

County council

Staffordshire

Parliamentary constituency

Stoke-on-Trent North

Police force area

Staffordshire

Region

West Midlands

Country

England

MP

David Williams (Labour)

All 89 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.