Thanet

8°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 10° / 6° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:21

9h 27m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

273 reported road collisions (2025)

82 killed or seriously injured · 349 casualties · 19.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

236 food businesses within 2 miles

• 231 rated 4–5 ★ (226 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Thanet Parkway (2.9 km)
• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£268,549 average▼ 0.8% YoY

Across Thanet · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,118 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

• 1 bed £773
• 2 bed £1,004
• 3 bed £1,229

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

8.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.3 times median annual pay (8.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,962 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: 151.9p · Esso (5.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (5.3 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

24 charging locations within ~8 km

• 14 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Sainsbury's Thanet Westwood Cross (2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches8
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Leader’s response to government decision to grant the Development Consent Order for the Sea Link development· 31 Oct 2026
• Advice issued against bathing at seven of Thanet’s beaches· 19 Oct 2026
• £3.6m investment unveiled to restore historic Margate Museum and Old Town Hall· 15 Oct 2026
• A ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ for community-led vision at Jackey Bakers in Ramsgate· 14 Oct 2026
• Updated statement: Proposals for Pierremont Park to be considered by the Cabinet· 12 Oct 2026

Source: Thanet Council

140,587 residents in Thanet · 1,357/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,293
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,512
• Net moves+1,781

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

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 32 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

19% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,491 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (29% of 69,980)

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

57 schools · 19,849 pupils

31 primary · 7 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 16 of 17 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Thanet

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
• 9 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

175 applications decided

94.9% granted · 166 granted, 9 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Labour majority

• Lab 30
• Con 13
• Grn 6
• Ref 5
• Oth 2

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

• Parks & greens6
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,560 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£721 median full-time weekly pay

5.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,665 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 86,604 certificates

14% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 82.5 yrs women · 79.3 yrs men

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

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Herne Bay and Sandwich:

• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent935 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases328 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND308 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects236 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth196 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

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

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  Flete · 0.9 km

  Flete is a hamlet 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Margate in Kent, United Kingdom. It is in the Thanet local government district. At the 2011 census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Manston.

• Manston arrivals and processing centre · 1.1 km

  Manston arrivals and processing centre is a centre used for the processing of migrants who have crossed the English Channel, located on the former site of RAF Manston in Manston, Kent, United Kingdom. Opened in Februa…

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  Thanet West · 1.1 km

  Thanet West was a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent.

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  Manston, Kent · 1.3 km

  Manston is a village and civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent, England. The village is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Ramsgate. The parish includes four hamlets and the former Manston Airport.

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  Defence Fire Training and Development Centre · 1.3 km

  The Defence Fire Training and Development Centre was the site of the Ministry of Defence's firefighter training. It occupied part of a former Royal Air Force base near the village of Manston in the southeast corner of…

• RAF Manston · 1.3 km

  Royal Air Force Manston or more simply RAF Manston is a former Royal Air Force station located in the north-east of Kent, at grid reference TR334663 on the Isle of Thanet from 1916 until 1996. The site was split betwe…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)