Stevington

16°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 11° · 11% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:25Sunset 19:33

13h 8m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Bromham, Oakley, Wootton · 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)

22 food businesses within 2 miles

• 19 rated 4–5 ★ (17 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Bedford (6.3 km)
• 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: 165.9p · Morrisons (7.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Morrisons (7.4 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

37 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Brewpoint (5.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches6
• Playgrounds1

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

• In a conservation area (Stevington)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 45 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

Richard Fuller

Conservative

North Bedfordshire

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 & greens6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,350 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

3 jobs advertised · £26,833 avg

e.g. Project Coordinator, Production Editor, Project Manager

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

88% low-carbon electricity

Wind 57% · Nuclear 18% · Gas 11% · Solar 9%

49 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · 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 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

• Stevington · 0.0 km

  Stevington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in northern Bedfordshire, England. It is on the River Great Ouse four to five miles northwest of Bedford. Nearby villages include Bromham, Oakley, Pav…

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  Church of St Mary, Stevington · 0.4 km

  Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed church in Stevington, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964. It is the Anglican parish church of Stevington, and is part of the Diocese of St Albans.

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  West End, Bedfordshire · 1.1 km

  West End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stevington, in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England.

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  Stevington Marsh · 1.7 km

  Stevington Marsh is a 7.5-hectare (19-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pavenham in Bedfordshire. It was notified in 1987 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local…

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  Pavenham Osier Beds · 1.9 km

  Pavenham Osier Beds is a 1.3 hectare nature reserve south of Pavenham, on the banks of the River Great Ouse, in Bedfordshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

• Oakley, Bedfordshire · 1.9 km

  Oakley is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, about four miles northwest of Bedford along the River Great Ouse. It has a population of 2,493 and is near the villages…

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