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Datchet

Datchet is a town in Berkshire, England, with a population of around 4,913. It has one pharmacy, around 11 restaurants and cafés, 23 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Datchet, 0.3 km away. There were around 39 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly other theft. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Datchet area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Windsor and Maidenhead area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 153,497 residents at roughly 781 people per km².

Council
Windsor and Maidenhead
County
Berkshire
Constituency
Windsor
Police force
Thames Valley
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My Area Score

Good

Ranked 86th of 294 English council areas — better than 71% of them.

Low crime74
Home affordability6
Affordable rents12
Good schools32
Life expectancy75
Low deprivation96
Employment74
Low council tax97

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

12°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 9° · 28% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:32

9h 33m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · London Harlington, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.4 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

Crime

52 reported · August 2026▲ 73% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences12
  • Anti-social behaviour9
  • Other theft9
  • Criminal damage & arson5

3 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Windsor East · Thames Valley

Local policing priorities

  • Catapults and other Anti-Social Behaviour
  • Road Safety and Traffic Offences

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

Road safety

176 reported road collisions (2025)

45 killed or seriously injured · 213 casualties · 11.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 384 rated 4–5 ★ (312 top)
  • 21 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Datchet (0.3 km)
  • 23 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Datchet (0.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£583,688 average▼ 0.2% YoY

Across Windsor and Maidenhead · to 2026-08

Detached£1,142,002
Semi-detached£611,223
Terraced£491,374
Flat£307,916

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,800 average monthly rent▲ 0.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,246
  • 2 bed £1,567
  • 3 bed £1,916

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

Affordability

13.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 13.3 times median annual pay (13.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,715 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (4.7 km)

23 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

95 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 21 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: York House (2.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Sports pitches20
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

153,497 residents in Windsor and Maidenhead · 781/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,978
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK11,347
  • Net moves+631

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

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 285 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£1,953 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (25% of 67,630)

A £1,302
B £1,519
C £1,736
D £1,953
E £2,387
F £2,820
G £3,254
H £3,905

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

Schools

83 schools · 27,804 pupils

46 primary · 10 secondary · 27 other

Ofsted: 21 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Charters SchoolGood
  • Holyport CollegeGood
  • Cox Green SchoolRequires improvement
  • Windsor Girls' SchoolRequires improvement
  • Altwood Church of England School
  • Churchmead Church of England (VA) School
  • Desborough College
  • Furze Platt Senior School
  • Newlands Girls' School
  • The Windsor Boys' School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Windsor and Maidenhead

Care & health services

190 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes43
  • GP practices46
  • Dentists44
  • Homecare agencies31
  • Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Windsor and Maidenhead

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

291 applications decided

71.8% granted · 209 granted, 82 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Jack Rankin

Conservative

Windsor

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 8
  • LD 21
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 11

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools4
  • Pharmacies2
  • Parks & greens10
  • Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

10,220 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

33 jobs advertised · £39,081 avg

e.g. Business Development Manager – Roofing Services, Gas Suppression Fitter, Admissions Officer - DBS Essential

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£952 median full-time weekly pay

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

£38,211 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 71,997 certificates

8.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

34% low-carbon electricity

Gas 52% · Solar 20% · Imports 14% · Wind 7%

219 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.3 yrs women · 81.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 68.9 women · 67.3 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

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

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

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in SL3

  • Datchet Health Centre
  • Langley Health Centre
  • The Orchard Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Windsor:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Datchet · 0.0 km

    Datchet is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. Historically part of Buckinghamshire, and the Stoke Hundred, the villa…

  • Datchet railway station · 0.3 km

    Datchet railway station serves the village of Datchet in Berkshire, England. It is 23 miles 63 chains (38.3 km) down the line from London Waterloo, on the Staines to Windsor & Eton Line.

  • Churchmead School · 0.3 km

    Churchmead School is a co-educational Church of England voluntary aided secondary school that caters for 11- to 18-year-olds. It is located in Datchet, near Slough, England. The school's motto is "Believe to Achieve".…

  • Datchet Bridge · 0.5 km

    Datchet Bridge, also known as The Divided Bridge, was a road bridge which crossed the River Thames at Datchet from 1706 until it was demolished in 1848. It was situated on the reach between Old Windsor Lock and Romney…

  • Datchet Common · 0.6 km

    Datchet Common near Datchet in the English county of Berkshire was used as a cricket venue for matches between 1730 and 1785.

  • Sumptermead Ait · 1.0 km

    Sumptermead Ait is an island in the River Thames in England on the reach above Old Windsor Lock, near Datchet, Berkshire. The island is a thin wooded strip separated by a narrow channel on the Datchet side. In 1995 a…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Datchet?
Datchet is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Windsor and Maidenhead local authority.
What is the population of Datchet?
Datchet has an approximate settlement population of 4,913.
How deprived is Datchet?
The Windsor and Maidenhead local authority, which includes Datchet, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.