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Slough

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, with a population of around 164,793. It has around 1 GP surgery, 7 pharmacies, 5 supermarkets, and around 81 restaurants and cafés, along with 52 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Slough, 0.5 km away. The average sold house price is around £480,719, and there were around 622 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 Slough area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Slough area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 158,500 residents at roughly 4,872 people per km².

Council
Slough
County
Berkshire
Constituency
Slough
Police force
Thames Valley
36/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 257th of 294 English council areas — better than 13% of them.

Low crime26
Home affordability35
Affordable rents22
Good schools79
Life expectancy27
Low deprivation23
Employment7
Low council tax57

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

19°COvercast

  • Today: 25° / 16° · 54% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:34Sunset 19:21

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Hillingdon Harmondsworth Os, United Kingdom

Crime

Crime data is temporarily unavailable.

Road safety

209 reported road collisions (2024)

33 killed or seriously injured · 235 casualties · 13.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 371 rated 4–5 ★ (258 top)
  • 26 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Slough (0.4 km)
  • 52 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Slough (0.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£352,024 average 2.2% YoY

Across Slough · to 2026-06

Detached£703,927
Semi-detached£479,019
Terraced£371,549
Flat£229,759

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,569 average monthly rent 2.4% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,144
  • 2 bed £1,428
  • 3 bed £1,716

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

Affordability

9.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.3 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (10.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (2.3 km)

35 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

66 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 14 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Herschel Multi-Storey Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres5
  • Gyms3
  • Sports pitches62
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

158,500 residents in Slough · 4,872/km²

  • Under 16: 25%
  • 16–64: 65%
  • 65+: 10%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 73 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,414 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (43% of 57,340)

A £1,610
B £1,878
C £2,146
D £2,414
E £2,951
F £3,488
G £4,024
H £4,829

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

Schools

59 schools · 34,305 pupils

28 primary · 14 secondary · 17 other

Ofsted: 16 of 17 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

50inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Herschel Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • Langley Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • St Bernard's Catholic Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • Upton Court Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • Baylis Court SchoolGood
  • St Joseph's Catholic High SchoolGood
  • The Langley AcademyGood
  • Beechwood School
  • Ditton Park Academy
  • Eden Girls' School, Slough
  • Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy
  • Slough and Eton Church of England Business and Enterprise College
  • The Westgate School
  • Wexham School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Slough

Care & health services

152 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes16
  • GP practices24
  • Dentists25
  • Homecare agencies69
  • Hospitals & hospices2

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Slough

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

141 applications decided

83.7% granted · 118 granted, 23 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

Labour

Slough

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • AyeRepresentation of the People Bill: Third Reading
  • NoRepresentation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition

  • Lab 11
  • Con 19
  • LD 10
  • Grn 1
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools19
  • GPs & clinics5
  • Pharmacies7
  • Supermarkets8
  • Parks & greens50
  • Restaurants & cafés82

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,450 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

2,698 jobs advertised · £41,481 avg

e.g. Occupational Therapist, Mobile Vehicle Technician - South East, Mobile Vehicle Technician - London and Greater London

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£784 median full-time weekly pay

6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,714 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

52% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 64,996 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

27% low-carbon electricity

Gas 54% · Imports 20% · Wind 9% · Solar 7%

229 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.9 yrs women · 78.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 61.8 women · 60.1 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.6
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Slough:

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

Notable places nearby

  • St Ethelbert's Church, Slough · 0.1 km

    St Ethelbert's Church or Our Lady Immaculate and St Ethelbert's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Slough, Berkshire, England. It was built from 1908 to 1910 and designed by Benedict Williamson. It is located…

  • Heart of Slough · 0.1 km

    The Heart of Slough project is a £400 million plan to redevelop the town centre in Slough, Berkshire. Begun in 2009, it aims to create a "cultural quarter" for the creative media, information and communications indust…

  • Observatory House · 0.1 km

    Observatory House was the name of an 18th-century observatory established by William and Caroline Herschel in Windsor Street, Slough. After the original building had been demolished, the name was re-applied to a moder…

  • 40-foot telescope · 0.1 km

    William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch (120 cm) diam…

  • Municipal Borough of Slough · 0.2 km

    Slough was, from 1863 to 1974, a local government district in southern Buckinghamshire, England. It became an urban district in 1894 and was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1938. It was abolished in 1974 and no…

  • Slough bus station · 0.3 km

    Slough bus station was a bus station in Slough, United Kingdom. The derelict structure is adjacent to Slough railway station.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Slough?
Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Slough local authority.
What is the population of Slough?
Slough has an approximate settlement population of 164,793.
How deprived is Slough?
The Slough local authority, which includes Slough, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.