Crawley

16°CLight rain shower

• Today: 22° / 15° · 41% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:26

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

600 reported · July 2026▲ 3% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences203
• Anti-social behaviour106
• Shoplifting92
• Public order62

31 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Northgate · Sussex

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

271 reported road collisions (2024)

63 killed or seriously injured · 368 casualties · 22.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 402 rated 4–5 ★ (356 top)
• 11 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Crawley (1.1 km)
• 60 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£338,311 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,486 average monthly rent▲ 3.1% YoY

• 1 bed £1,065
• 2 bed £1,384
• 3 bed £1,639

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

8.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.5 times median annual pay (9.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (2.6 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

45 charging locations within ~8 km

• 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: CGG (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms2
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches43
• Playgrounds20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

118,493 residents in Crawley · 2,635/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 13%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 136 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,418 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (48% of 47,280)

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

37 schools · 20,758 pupils

25 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 11 of 12 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

34inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Crawley

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
• 30 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

54 applications decided

87% granted · 47 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Peter Lamb

Labour

Crawley

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 21
• Con 4
• Ref 11

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

• Schools9
• GPs & clinics8
• Pharmacies10
• Supermarkets11
• Parks & greens117
• Restaurants & cafés76

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1,702 jobs advertised · £39,629 avg

e.g. Reliability Maintenance Engineering Technician, Speech and Language Therapist, Lifeguard

Source: Adzuna

£762 median full-time weekly pay

4.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,788 disposable income per head (2024)

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

56% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 45,126 certificates

7.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

60% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Gas 39% · Nuclear 8% · Biomass 7%

163 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

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

15 GP surgeries · 14 pharmacies in RH10

• Woodlands&Clerklands Partnership
• Saxonbrook Medical Centre
• Modality Mid Sussex

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Crawley:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s396 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership376 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office372 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test356 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases263 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Dyers Almshouses · 0.5 km

  The Dyers Almshouses are a group of 30 almshouses belonging to the Worshipful Company of Dyers, a London Livery Company. Built in three stages between 1939 and 1971, they are located close to the town centre of Crawle…

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  Crawley Town Hall · 0.6 km

  Crawley Town Hall is a municipal structure in The Boulevard, Crawley, West Sussex, England. It was completed in 2023 and serves as the headquarters of Crawley Borough Council.

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  West Green, West Sussex · 0.6 km

  West Green is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Crawley was planned and laid out as a New Town after the Second World War, based on the principle of self-…

• Crawley College · 0.6 km

  Crawley College is a further education college in Crawley, West Sussex, England. It forms the Crawley campus of the Chichester College Group, one of the largest providers of further education in the south-east of Engl…

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  Tree House, Crawley · 0.7 km

  Tree House, also known as The Tree, is a medieval timber-framed house on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is the original manor house of Crawley, and was built in the early 15…

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  Old Punch Bowl · 0.8 km

  The Old Punch Bowl is a medieval timber-framed Wealden hall house on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built in the early 15th century, it was used as a farmhouse by about 1600, p…

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