Adur

19°CLight rain shower

• Today: 20° / 19° · 60% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 16° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:19

12h 46m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

60 reported · July 2026▲ 25% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences20
• Anti-social behaviour19
• Criminal damage & arson7
• Public order4

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

100 reported road collisions (2024)

29 killed or seriously injured · 119 casualties · 15.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

268 food businesses within 2 miles

• 234 rated 4–5 ★ (218 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Shoreham-by-Sea (2.1 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£380,031 average▲ 1.8% YoY

Across Adur · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,399 average monthly rent▲ 3% YoY

• 1 bed £992
• 2 bed £1,289
• 3 bed £1,593

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

9.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.2 times median annual pay (10.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Asda (11.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Asda (11.3 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

74 charging locations within ~8 km

• 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Lancing Manor Leisure Centre (1.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Swimming pools17
• Sports pitches52
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

64,547 residents in Adur · 1,534/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 164 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,548 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (40% of 28,970)

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

21 schools · 8,938 pupils

12 primary · 2 secondary · 7 other

Ofsted: 6 of 6 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

16inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Adur

988 CQC-registered services

• Care homes343
• GP practices106
• Dentists219
• Homecare agencies210
• Hospitals & hospices37

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Sussex

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

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

69 applications decided

94.2% granted · 65 granted, 4 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour majority

• Lab 17
• Grn 2
• Ref 6
• Oth 4

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

• Schools4
• Parks & greens30
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

2,715 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£748 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,237 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 29,016 certificates

9.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84.3 yrs women · 82.7 yrs men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday6.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Worthing and Shoreham:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership453 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership435 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases382 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s342 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office306 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

• 
  2015 Shoreham Airshow crash · 0.3 km

  On 22 August 2015, a Hawker Hunter T7 aircraft crashed onto a main road during an aerial display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air…

• 
  Brighton City Airport · 0.6 km

  Brighton City Airport, also commonly known as Shoreham Airport, is located in Lancing near Shoreham by Sea in West Sussex, England. It has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transpor…

• 
  Lancing College Chapel · 0.7 km

  Lancing College Chapel is the chapel to Lancing College in West Sussex, England, and is an example of Gothic Revival architecture. The chapel was designed by R.H. Carpenter and William Slater. The foundation stone of…

• 
  Lancing College · 0.7 km

  Lancing College is a public school for pupils aged 13–18. The school is located in West Sussex, east of Worthing in the parish of Lancing, on the south coast of England. Lancing College was founded in 1848 by Nathanie…

• 
  Shoreham Tollbridge · 0.8 km

  Shoreham Tollbridge is a bridge crossing the River Adur near Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex, England. It is the last of its kind in Sussex and one of the last of its kind anywhere in the world.

• 
  Red Lion Inn, Shoreham-by-Sea · 1.0 km

  The Red Lion Inn is a 16th-century public house in the ancient Old Shoreham part of the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, in the Adur district of West Sussex, England. Established in the 16th century in part of a former monast…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)