Harlow

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• Today: 10° / 8° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:01Sunset 16:25

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

31US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bexley - Belvedere West, United Kingdom

• 7.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.6% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

545 reported · August 2026▲ 13% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences181
• Shoplifting66
• Anti-social behaviour58
• Public order47

38 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Netteswell · Essex

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

103 reported road collisions (2025)

30 killed or seriously injured · 129 casualties · 11 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 418 rated 4–5 ★ (357 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Harlow Town (1.9 km)
• 55 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£317,453 average▲ 4.3% YoY

Across Harlow · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,521 average monthly rent▲ 4% YoY

• 1 bed £1,022
• 2 bed £1,327
• 3 bed £1,573

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

8.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.8 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

990 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: 136.8p · AppleGreen (4.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 140.8p · AppleGreen (4.2 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

20 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: John Dowdell Close (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches64
• Playgrounds24

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

93,328 residents in Harlow · 3,056/km²

• Under 16: 22%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 15%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,484
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,855
• Net moves−371

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 92 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,299 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (48% of 40,520)

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

42 schools · 16,316 pupils

30 primary · 7 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 13 of 15 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Harlow

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

• In a conservation area (Netteswellbury)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 50 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

65 applications decided

84.6% granted · 55 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative majority

• Lab 10
• Con 22
• Ref 1

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

• Schools21
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens43
• Restaurants & cafés34

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,230 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

667 jobs advertised · £40,445 avg

e.g. Director - Category Manager (EXM - LCO/Sterile), English Graduate, Senior Manager - Strategic Sourcing 'Core / Agile'

Source: Adzuna

£728 median full-time weekly pay

4.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,350 disposable income per head (2024)

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

52% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 51,072 certificates

8.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 78.9 yrs men

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

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2021-22

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Harlow:

• Criminalise unauthorised development & ban retrospective permission626 local signatures · 7,329 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth309 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND178 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK134 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence112 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide

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

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  St Mark's West Essex Catholic School · 0.3 km

  St Mark's West Essex Catholic School is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Harlow, Essex, England.

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  Netteswell · 0.6 km

  Netteswell is a suburb of Harlow in Essex, England. Until the mid-20th century, Netteswell was a rural parish with a number of small settlements and scattered houses, with the two main settlements being Netteswell Cro…

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  BMAT STEM Academy · 0.7 km

  BMAT STEM Academy is a University Technical College within the Harlow College campus in Harlow, Essex, England, which opened in September 2014 as Sir Charles Kao UTC. It was named after the Nobel Prize winning scienti…

• Harlow College · 0.7 km

  Harlow College is a further education college in Harlow, Essex, England. This medium-sized college has 5,900 students as of 2018 of which 2,585 are on 16-19 programmes and 2,000 are on adult educational programmes. It…

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  Harlow Civic Centre · 0.9 km

  Harlow Civic Centre is a municipal building in Harlow, a town in Essex, in England. It is the offices and meeting place of Harlow District Council.

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  St Paul's Church, Harlow · 1.0 km

  St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the new town of Harlow, Essex, England. Designed by Derrick Humphrys and Reginald Hurst, it was built between 1957 and 1959. It is a Grade II listed bui…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)