Hargrave

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 22° / 17° · 81% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 15° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:24

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

6 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Burglary1
• Other crime1

Neighbourhood team: Irthlingborough and Raunds · Northamptonshire

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

288 reported road collisions (2024)

55 killed or seriously injured · 366 casualties · 15.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

3 food businesses within 2 miles

• 3 rated 4–5 ★ (3 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£329,830 average▲ 4.4% YoY

Across Bedford · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,170 average monthly rent▲ 3.4% YoY

• 1 bed £798
• 2 bed £1,027
• 3 bed £1,256

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

9.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.1 times median annual pay (9.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · BP (10.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (10.4 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 43 kW
• Nearest: Raunds Town Council (4.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

185,227 residents in Bedford · 389/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 156 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,472 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 80,810)

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

85 schools · 35,894 pupils

54 primary · 13 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 35 of 38 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

75inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bedford

272 CQC-registered services

• Care homes73
• GP practices34
• Dentists50
• Homecare agencies84
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 82% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bedford

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

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

221 applications decided

72.4% granted · 160 granted, 61 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Lee Barron

Labour

Corby and East Northamptonshire

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority · directly-elected mayor

• Lab 12
• Con 14
• LD 13
• Grn 4
• Oth 3

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

• Parks & greens3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,350 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

10 jobs advertised · £33,176 avg

e.g. Care Assistant - Evenings - Driving License Required, Care Assistant - Driving License Required, Online French Tutoring Job in Hargrave (Suffolk) – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£780 median full-time weekly pay

4.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,626 disposable income per head (2024)

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

54% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 90,060 certificates

9.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

75% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 44% · Wind 30% · Gas 25% · Nuclear 2%

150 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.4 yrs women · 80.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 62.7 women · 62.5 men

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Corby and East Northamptonshire:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s450 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership427 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office418 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test278 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership260 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Hargrave, Northamptonshire · 0.1 km

  Hargrave is a small village and civil parish situated in rural Northamptonshire, England, approximately 21 miles east of Northampton and adjacent to the Northamptonshire-Cambridgeshire-Bedfordshire border. At the time…

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  Shelton, North Bedfordshire · 1.4 km

  Shelton is a village in the civil parish of Dean and Shelton, in the Bedford borough of Bedfordshire, England. It is close to the county boundary with Northamptonshire and the district of Huntingdonshire in Cambridges…

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  Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shelton, North Bedfordshire · 1.8 km

  Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Shelton, Bedfordshire, England.

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  Dean and Shelton · 1.9 km

  Dean and Shelton is a civil parish in the Bedford district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England.

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  Covington, Cambridgeshire · 2.2 km

  Covington is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Covington lies approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Huntingdon near to Catworth and close to the county borders with both Bedfordshire and Northamp…

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  Lower Dean · 2.5 km

  Lower Dean is a village located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Dean is a modernized version of the Anglo-Saxon word "denu," which means "valley."

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)