Tonbridge and Malling

8°COvercast

• Today: 10° / 6° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:25

9h 27m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Dartford - St Clements 2, United Kingdom

• 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

12 reported · August 2026▲ 100% YoY

• Other theft5
• Criminal damage & arson2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Anti-social behaviour1

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: East and West Peckham, Mereworth & Wateringbury · Kent

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

227 reported road collisions (2025)

60 killed or seriously injured · 300 casualties · 17.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

49 food businesses within 2 miles

• 43 rated 4–5 ★ (34 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: West Malling (3.9 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£405,507 average▼ 0.1% YoY

Across Tonbridge and Malling · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,489 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £1,032
• 2 bed £1,333
• 3 bed £1,626

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

12.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.0 times median annual pay (11.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,779 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: 169.9p · ESSO (5.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 199.9p · ESSO (8.5 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

16 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Capital Space (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches8
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

132,201 residents in Tonbridge and Malling · 551/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,519
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,436
• Net moves+1,083

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 235 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,472 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 57,230)

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

69 schools · 25,026 pupils

45 primary · 11 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 25 of 29 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tonbridge and Malling

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

• Within the Green Belt
• 17 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

235 applications decided

94.5% granted · 222 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 2
• Con 21
• LD 11
• Grn 8
• Oth 2

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

• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,065 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£821 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£30,480 disposable income per head (2024)

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

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 56,525 certificates

8.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 81.8 yrs men

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

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Tonbridge:

• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent469 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND302 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death288 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks250 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills162 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

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  Mereworth · 1.1 km

  Mereworth is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The Wateringbury Stream flows through the village and powered a watermill, the site of which now lies within the grounds of Merewort…

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  St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth · 1.6 km

  St Lawrence's Church is an Anglican parish church at Mereworth, Kent, United Kingdom. It is in the deanery of West Malling, the Diocese of Rochester and Province of Canterbury. The church was built in the mid-1740s by…

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  Tonbridge and Malling · 1.9 km

  Tonbridge and Malling is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. The council is based at Kings Hill. The borough also includes the towns of Tonbridge and Snodland along with numerous villages…

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  Kings Hill · 1.9 km

  Kings Hill is a civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. It is one of several new villages built in Kent since the 1950s. Development started in 1989 near West Malling, on land previously…

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  Offham, Kent · 2.0 km

  Offham is a village and civil parish in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England, five miles to the west of Maidstone.

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  RAF West Malling · 2.1 km

  Royal Air Force West Malling or more simply RAF West Malling is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south of West Malling, Kent and 5.2 miles (8.4 km) west of Maidstone, Kent, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)