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Marlow

Marlow is a town in Berkshire, England, with a population of around 18,261. It has 1 pharmacy and 12 restaurants and cafés, along with 7 bus stops and Marlow railway station 1 km away. The average sold house price is around £821,498, and there were around 62 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Marlow 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
Maidenhead
Police force
Thames Valley
59/ 100

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

9°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 11° / 6° · 36% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:34

9h 36m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

37US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, 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

64 reported · August 2026▼ 21% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour9
  • Violence & sexual offences9
  • Shoplifting8
  • Other crime8

13 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Marlow · Thames Valley

Local policing priorities

  • The residents of Marlow have voiced that Anti-social behaviour in the area is the most prominent issue they would like their local neighb…
  • The residents of Marlow have voted Speeding as one of their top concerns. The team will work to plan various days of enforcement and spee…

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

168 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 143 rated 4–5 ★ (127 top)
  • 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Marlow (0.6 km)
  • 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Marlow (0.6 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: 169.9p · Asda (4.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 196.7p · Asda (4.7 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

61 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 12 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 175 kW
  • Nearest: George and Dragon (0 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres8
  • Gyms3
  • Swimming pools7
  • Sports pitches37
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds10

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

  • In a conservation area (Marlow)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 197 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

Joy Morrissey

Conservative

Beaconsfield

Recent votes:

  • 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
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

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

  • Schools8
  • Pharmacies3
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens15
  • Restaurants & cafés33

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

10,220 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

320 jobs advertised · £37,464 avg

e.g. Implementation Support Executive, Chef de Partie, Roadside Technician Nights - Reading / Oxford

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

38% low-carbon electricity

Gas 60% · Wind 20% · Biomass 9% · Nuclear 7%

247 gCO₂/kWh · very 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

2 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in SL7

  • Marlow Medical Group
  • Arc Bucks Pcn

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Beaconsfield:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Marlow Place · 0.1 km

    Marlow Place is a country house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

  • St Peter's Church, Marlow · 0.2 km

    St Peter's Church is a Catholic parish church in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It started from a mission church founded in 1844 and was completed in 1846. It was designed by Augustus Pugin in the Gothic Revival style and f…

  • Marlow Bridge · 0.3 km

    Marlow Bridge is a road traffic and foot bridge over the River Thames in England between the town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire and the village of Bisham in Berkshire. It crosses the Thames just upstream of Marlow Lock,…

  • Court Garden, Marlow · 0.3 km

    Court Garden in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Grade II* listed building on the National Heritage List for England. It was built as a house in about 1758 by Dr William Battie, an eminent physician. It was sold…

  • Marlow Rowing Club · 0.3 km

    Marlow Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Thames in England, on the southern bank of the Thames at Bisham in Berkshire, opposite the town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire just beside Marlow Bridge and on the reach ab…

  • Marlow Town Hall · 0.4 km

    Marlow Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure, which is used as a cinema, is a Grade II* listed building.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Marlow?
Marlow is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Windsor and Maidenhead local authority.
What is the population of Marlow?
Marlow has an approximate settlement population of 18,261.
How deprived is Marlow?
The Windsor and Maidenhead local authority, which includes Marlow, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.