Mid Sussex

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 22° / 14° · 47% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 13° · Sunny

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

7US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

31 reported · July 2026▼ 30% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour12
• Violence & sexual offences7
• Public order4
• Other theft2

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Lucastes and Bolnore Village · Sussex

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

268 reported road collisions (2024)

75 killed or seriously injured · 353 casualties · 17.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

206 food businesses within 2 miles

• 171 rated 4–5 ★ (145 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Haywards Heath (1.6 km)
• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£426,441 average▼ 0.9% YoY

Across Mid Sussex · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,420 average monthly rent▲ 3.4% YoY

• 1 bed £1,008
• 2 bed £1,288
• 3 bed £1,617

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

10.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.9 times median annual pay (11.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (11 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · Esso (6.4 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

23 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Caffyns Volkswagen Haywards Heath (1.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools21
• Sports pitches22
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

152,566 residents in Mid Sussex · 457/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 311 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,474 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (25% of 70,350)

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

66 schools · 26,547 pupils

42 primary · 7 secondary · 17 other

Ofsted: 19 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (83%)

52inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Mid Sussex

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
• 111 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

253 applications decided

92.9% granted · 235 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 18
• LD 19
• Grn 4
• Oth 6

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens9
• Restaurants & cafés7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,180 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£842 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£31,691 disposable income per head (2024)

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

51% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 71,992 certificates

8.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

60% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday8.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Mid Sussex:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership408 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s387 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership385 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases296 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test289 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Borde Hill Garden · 1.2 km

  Borde Hill Garden is a garden located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Haywards Heath, West Sussex in southern England. It is set in over 200 acres (80 ha) of garden, park and woodlands which has views across the Sussex Hi…

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  Mid Sussex District · 1.3 km

  Mid Sussex is a local government district in West Sussex, England. The largest town is Haywards Heath, where the council is based. The district also contains the towns of Burgess Hill and East Grinstead plus surroundi…

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  Warden Park Secondary Academy · 1.3 km

  Warden Park Secondary Academy is a coeducational secondary school in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.

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  Cuckfield · 1.3 km

  Cuckfield is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, on the southern slopes of the Weald. It lies 34 miles (55 km) south of London, 13 miles (21 km) north of Brighton, and 31 mil…

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  Whitemans Green · 1.5 km

  Whiteman's Green is a place in the north of the large village and civil parish of Cuckfield in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the southern slopes of the Weald, two miles (3.2 km) wes…

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  Haywards Heath railway station · 1.6 km

  Haywards Heath railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving the town of Haywards Heath, West Sussex. It is 37 miles 59 chains down the line from London Bridge via Redhill and is situated between Ba…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)