Folkestone and Hythe

8°CSunny

• Today: 11° / 8° · 10% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:55Sunset 16:23

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

40US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Rochester Stoke, United Kingdom

• 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

4 reported · August 2026▼ 56% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Other theft1
• Violence & sexual offences1

2 stop & searches · mostly firearms

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

205 reported road collisions (2025)

59 killed or seriously injured · 260 casualties · 18.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

114 food businesses within 2 miles

• 95 rated 4–5 ★ (85 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Westenhanger (1.2 km)
• 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,178 average monthly rent▲ 10.6% YoY

• 1 bed £805
• 2 bed £1,031
• 3 bed £1,285

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

8.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.1 times median annual pay (9.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,609 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: 159.9p · Esso (5.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 192.9p · Esso (5.3 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

25 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: IONITY Channel Gateway (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches15
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

109,759 residents in Folkestone and Hythe · 308/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,215
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,647
• Net moves+568

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 66 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,539 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 53,780)

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

48 schools · 15,076 pupils

36 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 21 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Folkestone and Hythe

1,676 CQC-registered services

• Care homes503
• GP practices222
• Dentists360
• Homecare agencies415
• Hospitals & hospices47

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 20 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kent

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

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

159 applications decided

84.3% granted · 134 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Green / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 8
• Con 5
• LD 2
• Grn 11
• Ref 1
• Oth 3

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,485 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£755 median full-time weekly pay

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

£25,977 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 62,831 certificates

12.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Kent): 63.9 women · 62.5 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Folkestone and Hythe:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases489 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent374 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects252 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks220 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND212 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

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

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  Pedlinge · 0.7 km

  Pedlinge is an English hamlet in the Kent parish of Saltwood. It comprises a chapel of ease, house, two cottages and a gatehouse to Sandling Park estate. As of 2007, the gatehouse is derelict.

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  Newingreen · 1.0 km

  Newingreen is a village in the civil parish of Stanford, in the Folkestone and Hythe district, in Kent, England, near Folkestone. It is situated on the junction of the A20 and the historic Stone Street between Lympne…

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  Folkestone services · 1.1 km

  Folkestone services is a motorway service station on the M20 motorway at Westenhanger, seven miles from Folkestone in Kent, England. It was the second to be built on the motorway, and was opened on 9 January 2008. It…

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  Brockhill Country Park · 1.2 km

  Brockhill Country Park is in Saltwood, near Hythe in Kent, England. The park was a former estate with landscaped gardens and has subsequently been sub-divided. The house now forms the main building for a performing ar…

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  Westenhanger railway station · 1.3 km

  Westenhanger railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the villages of Westenhanger and Stanford, and was near the now-closed Folkestone Racecourse, in Kent. It is 64 miles 15 chains (103.3…

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  Sandling railway station · 1.4 km

  Sandling railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Sandling and the market town of Hythe, Kent. It is 65 miles 36 chains (105.3 km) down the line from London Charing Cross. T…

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