North Devon

8°CCloudy

• Today: 11° / 6° · 15% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:48

9h 39m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Barnstaple A39, United Kingdom

• 4.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 3.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

1 reported · August 2026

• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Bishops Tawton, Landkey, Swimbridge & Whiddon Valley · Devon And Cornwall

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

159 reported road collisions (2025)

40 killed or seriously injured · 204 casualties · 16.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

4 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Barnstaple (6.6 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£280,441 average▼ 4.2% YoY

Across North Devon · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£846 average monthly rent▼ 0.3% YoY

• 1 bed £589
• 2 bed £778
• 3 bed £965

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

9.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.2 times median annual pay (8.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,393 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: 167.7p · Asda (6.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.7p · Asda (6.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

14 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Bratton Fleming Sports Club (4.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

98,611 residents in North Devon · 91/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,542
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,861
• Net moves+681

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 99 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,642 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (24% of 49,360)

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

59 schools · 14,390 pupils

47 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 20 of 24 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (83%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · North Devon

829 CQC-registered services

• Care homes309
• GP practices118
• Dentists156
• Homecare agencies155
• Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Devon

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

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

173 applications decided

96% granted · 166 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 7
• LD 24
• Grn 3
• Oth 8

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

5,815 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

36 jobs advertised · £36,477 avg

e.g. HGV Class 1 Driver, Painter/Decorator/Window Cleaner, Trainee Driving Instructor - North Tawton, Devon, England

Source: Adzuna

£650 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,005 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,031 certificates

12.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 80.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Devon): 64 women · 63.7 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North Devon:

• Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones2,685 local signatures · 38,553 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks357 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND241 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers188 local signatures · 13,821 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately187 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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  Stoke Rivers · 2.2 km

  Stoke Rivers is a small village five miles north-east of Barnstaple, in Devon, England. The village historically formed part of Shirwell Hundred and for ecclesiastical purposes falls within the Shirwell Deanery. The…

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  Chelfham railway station · 2.4 km

  Chelfham railway station was a station on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon, England. The station stood at the head of…

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  Chelfham Viaduct · 2.4 km

  Chelfham Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1896–97 to carry the single track, narrow-gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B) across the Stoke Rivers valley at Chelfham in Devon.

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  Lynton and Barnstaple Railway · 2.4 km

  The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B) was a single track, 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in narrow gauge railway. It opened in May 1898 and ran for slightly more than 19 miles (31 km) through the area bordering Exmoor in North Devon,…

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  Chelfham · 2.4 km

  Chelfham is a small borough in North Devon, England. It is situated between Bratton Fleming and Barnstaple. The village had a closed special education school, and also a disused railway viaduct and station.

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  Accott · 2.4 km

  Accott is an historic estate, now a small settlement, in the parish of Bishop's Tawton in the county of Devon, England

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)