St Neots

21°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 14° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:27Sunset 19:27

13h 0m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

10US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

37 reported · July 2026▼ 34% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences11
• Anti-social behaviour9
• Burglary3
• Criminal damage & arson3

Neighbourhood team: Riseley, Wyboston · Bedfordshire

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)

181 food businesses within 2 miles

• 151 rated 4–5 ★ (124 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: St Neots (3.2 km)
• 5 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: 166.9p · BP (1.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · BP (1.6 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

13 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Extra-St Neots (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches7
• Golf courses3
• Playgrounds10

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
• 31 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

Conservative majority · directly-elected mayor

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

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens15
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,350 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

410 jobs advertised · £39,940 avg

e.g. Mobile Vehicle Technician, Mobile Vehicle Technician - East England, Quantity Surveyor

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

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 North Bedfordshire:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases619 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership428 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test354 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office353 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s323 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Little Barford Power Station · 0.2 km

  Little Barford Power Station is a combined cycle gas turbine power station in the parish of Little Barford in Bedfordshire, England. It lies just south of the A428 St Neots bypass and east of the Wyboston Leisure Park…

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  Little Barford · 0.9 km

  Little Barford is a hamlet and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the county town of Bedford.

• Ernulf Academy · 1.0 km

  Ernulf Academy is a secondary school with academy status, located in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England. It is one of two St Neots secondary schools that are part of the Astrea Academy Trust, with Longsands Academy bei…

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  St Denys' Church, Little Barford · 1.1 km

  St Denys' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under…

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  Eynesbury Rovers F.C. · 1.2 km

  Eynesbury Rovers Football Club is a football club based in the Eynesbury area of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England. The club are currently members of the United Counties League Premier Division South, and play at th…

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  Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire · 1.3 km

  Eynesbury is an urban area in the civil parish of St Neots, in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It mainly consists of housing, although there is an area of light industry, and a large supermark…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)