East Ilsley

17°CCloudy

• Today: 23° / 12° · 28% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:29

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

1 reported · July 2026

• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: Bucklebury and Downlands · Thames Valley

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

206 reported road collisions (2024)

44 killed or seriously injured · 269 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

6 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£402,790 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across West Berkshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,314 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £919
• 2 bed £1,194
• 3 bed £1,483

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

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (9.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 194.9p · BP (8.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 214.9p · BP (8.8 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Diamond Light Source LTD (5.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

161,448 residents in West Berkshire · 229/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 289 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,505 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 72,040)

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

99 schools · 27,859 pupils

67 primary · 10 secondary · 22 other

Ofsted: 21 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

82inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Berkshire

150 CQC-registered services

• Care homes46
• GP practices17
• Dentists34
• Homecare agencies39
• Hospitals & hospices4

CQC ratings: 95% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Berkshire

• In a conservation area (East Ilsley)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 26 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

218 applications decided

86.7% granted · 189 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Olivia Bailey

Labour

Reading West and Mid Berkshire

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 1
• Con 11
• LD 28
• Grn 2
• Oth 1

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,340 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised · £35,000 avg

e.g. Senior Chef De Partie

Source: Adzuna

£861 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,258 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 75,598 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

64% low-carbon electricity

Wind 30% · Solar 23% · Imports 19% · Gas 17%

83 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 82 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66.5 women · 65.5 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Reading West and Mid Berkshire:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s368 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership325 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership321 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Offer MenB vaccine to under 22s born before 2015276 local signatures · 3,696 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test274 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  West Ilsley · 2.5 km

  West Ilsley is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was 332.

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  Churn railway station · 2.7 km

  Churn railway station was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England. It served Churn Down, a remote part of the Berkshire Downs. The nearest village was Blewbury, two miles north, which was a…

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  Stanmore, Berkshire · 2.8 km

  Stanmore is a hamlet in Berkshire, England. In the 2011 Census it was included in the civil parish of Beedon. It is situated west of the A34, 7 miles north of Newbury. Abingdon is 13 miles to the north and nearby vill…

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  East Ilsley · 2.8 km

  East Ilsley is a village and civil parish in the Berkshire Downs in West Berkshire, north of Newbury. The village is centred immediately east of the A34 dual carriageway which passes the length of the village from nor…

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  Compton, Berkshire · 2.9 km

  Compton is a village and civil parish in the River Pang valley in the Berkshire Downs about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Didcot.

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  Ashridge Wood · 2.9 km

  Ashridge Wood is a 15.9-hectare (39-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Compton in Berkshire. It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)