Basildon

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 9° · 27% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:26

9h 29m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

57US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stanford-le-Hope Roadside, United Kingdom

• 7.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

86 reported · August 2026▲ 19% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour29
• Violence & sexual offences18
• Other theft11
• Drugs8

12 stop & searches

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

252 reported road collisions (2025)

77 killed or seriously injured · 305 casualties · 13.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

381 food businesses within 2 miles

• 293 rated 4–5 ★ (253 top)
• 19 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Basildon (3.0 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£366,218 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across Basildon · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,424 average monthly rent▲ 5.4% YoY

• 1 bed £983
• 2 bed £1,269
• 3 bed £1,508

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

9.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.7 times median annual pay (10.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,362 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: 135.8p · AppleGreen (0.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (0.8 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Extra - Basildon (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Swimming pools5
• Sports pitches49
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

187,571 residents in Basildon · 1,705/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,278
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK11,535
• Net moves−257

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 120 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,327 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (31% of 80,090)

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

59 schools · 30,397 pupils

46 primary · 9 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 20 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Basildon

1,574 CQC-registered services

• Care homes408
• GP practices229
• Dentists312
• Homecare agencies474
• Hospitals & hospices40

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 17 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Essex

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

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

213 applications decided

89.7% granted · 191 granted, 22 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 12
• Con 12
• Ref 11
• Oth 7

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,870 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

904 jobs advertised · £43,187 avg

e.g. Accounts Senior, Vehicle Valeter - full time, Vehicle Valeter

Source: Adzuna

£806 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,031 disposable income per head (2024)

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

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 78,520 certificates

7.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 80 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Essex): 62.4 women · 62.7 men

75% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Basildon and Billericay:

• Remove the grey belt planning rules361 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth267 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND253 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases207 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK145 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

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  Dale Farm · 0.4 km

  Dale Farm is a plot of land situated on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex, United Kingdom. Until October 2011, it was the site of one of the largest Traveller concentrations in the UK, at its height housing over 1,000 peo…

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  Ramsden Crays · 0.7 km

  Ramsden Crays is a civil parish in the Basildon district of Essex, England. It lies north of Basildon and west of Wickford. The parish includes the village of Crays Hill and is located north of the A127. The River Cro…

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  Crays Hill · 0.9 km

  Crays Hill is a village in the Basildon borough of Essex, England. The River Crouch passes under Church Lane.

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  Basildon United F.C. · 1.1 km

  Basildon United Football Club is a football club based in Basildon, Essex. They are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Gardiners Close.

• De La Salle School, Basildon · 1.6 km

  De La Salle School is a Roman Catholic voluntary aided school located in Basildon, Essex for boys and girls aged 11 to 16, in the Trusteeship of the La Sallian Brothers, and within the Diocese of Brentwood.

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  Noak Bridge · 1.7 km

  Noak Bridge is a housing estate and civil parish on the northern edge of Basildon in the Borough of Basildon in Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,813.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)