Bletchley

16°COvercast

• Today: 17° / 11° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:34

13h 8m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

284 reported · July 2026▲ 15% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences118
• Anti-social behaviour38
• Shoplifting32
• Public order24

18 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Central Bletchley and Fenny Stratford · Thames Valley

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

607 reported road collisions (2024)

106 killed or seriously injured · 765 casualties · 11 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

384 food businesses within 2 miles

• 310 rated 4–5 ★ (250 top)
• 11 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Bletchley (0.3 km)
• 40 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£490,508 average▲ 4.3% YoY

Across Buckinghamshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,474 average monthly rent▲ 4.6% YoY

• 1 bed £1,035
• 2 bed £1,310
• 3 bed £1,602

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

11.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.3 times median annual pay (11.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · BP (6.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 182.7p · Morrisons (10.3 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 55 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Halifax Bank (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches12
• Playgrounds17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

553,079 residents in Buckinghamshire · 353/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

£2,527 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 238,540)

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

274 schools · 97,646 pupils

182 primary · 35 secondary · 57 other

Ofsted: 80 of 93 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

235inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Buckinghamshire

563 CQC-registered services

• Care homes134
• GP practices89
• Dentists155
• Homecare agencies134
• Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Buckinghamshire

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

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

1,132 applications decided

86.9% granted · 984 granted, 148 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Callum Anderson

Labour

Buckingham and Bletchley

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 3
• Con 50
• LD 26
• Grn 2
• Ref 2
• Oth 14

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

• Schools12
• GPs & clinics6
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens30
• Restaurants & cafés66

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

33,545 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

102 jobs advertised · £40,574 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Sous Chef - Milton Keynes - Choose Your Rota, Our clients are searching electricians for the service electrical system adjustment in Bletchley

Source: Adzuna

£836 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£34,111 disposable income per head (2024)

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

59% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 90,273 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

59% low-carbon electricity

Gas 38% · Wind 25% · Biomass 19% · Solar 15%

173 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66.9 women · 65.3 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Buckingham and Bletchley:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s467 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership375 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office325 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership277 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test268 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Bletchley Flyover · 0.1 km

  The Bletchley Flyover is a railway viaduct that crosses the West Coast Main Line (WCML) just south of Bletchley railway station in Milton Keynes, England. It was originally a reinforced concrete railway viaduct that c…

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  Bletchley · 0.2 km

  Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, a city in Buckinghamshire, England. It gives its name to a larger census "built-up area" that occupies the south-west of the city and which is divided by the West Coas…

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  Bletchley railway station · 0.3 km

  Bletchley railway station serves the town of Bletchley, the southern parts of Milton Keynes and the north-eastern parts of Aylesbury Vale, in Buckinghamshire England. It lies 47 miles (76 km) north-west of London Eust…

• Bletchley and Fenny Stratford · 0.5 km

  Bletchley and Fenny Stratford is a civil parish with a town council, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was formed in 2001 from the unparished area of Milton Keynes and, according to the 2021 census, had a…

• Hut 7 · 0.6 km

  Hut 7 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of Japanese naval codes such as JN4, JN11, JN40, and JN-25. The hut was headed by Hugh Foss who reported…

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  Hut 4 · 0.7 km

  Hut 4 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park tasked with the translation, interpretation and distribution of Kriegsmarine messages deciphered by Hut 8. The messages were large…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)