Farcet

19°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 13° · 43% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:25

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

49 reported · July 2026▼ 21% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences24
• Anti-social behaviour12
• Drugs3
• Other theft3

Neighbourhood team: Huntingdon · Cambridgeshire

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

274 reported road collisions (2024)

72 killed or seriously injured · 395 casualties · 15.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

186 food businesses within 2 miles

• 167 rated 4–5 ★ (151 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Peterborough (NVR) (3.8 km)
• 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£306,387 average▲ 3.1% YoY

Across Huntingdonshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,050 average monthly rent▲ 3.4% YoY

• 1 bed £740
• 2 bed £960
• 3 bed £1,162

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

8.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.7 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (1.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Morrisons (7.8 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

37 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Dobbies Garden Centre (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches14
• Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

180,832 residents in Huntingdonshire · 200/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 247 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,556 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (26% of 83,830)

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

77 schools · 25,478 pupils

62 primary · 7 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 30 of 31 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (97%)

74inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Huntingdonshire

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes141
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies137
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

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

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

240 applications decided

84.2% granted · 202 granted, 38 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sam Carling

Labour

North West Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Independent / Green coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 15
• LD 21
• Grn 2
• Ref 9
• Oth 4

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

• Schools5
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens4
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,920 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

34 jobs advertised · £32,100 avg

e.g. Become a German Tutor in Farcet – Flexible & Remote, Become a Computer science Tutor in Farcet – Flexible & Remote, Delivery Driver

Source: Adzuna

£774 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,667 disposable income per head (2024)

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

51% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 86,866 certificates

8.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

85% low-carbon electricity

Wind 58% · Nuclear 19% · Gas 15% · Biomass 8%

66 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North West Cambridgeshire:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s457 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership440 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office378 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test292 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases232 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Farcet · 0.2 km

  Farcet (/ˈfæsət/) is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Farcet lies approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Peterborough city centre, between Yaxley and the Peterborough suburb of Old Fletton. Farcet…

• Stanground Academy · 1.4 km

  Stanground Academy is a co-educational academy school and specialist college for sport, in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom. As of 20 October 2023, the academy has a capacity of around 1,430 students, wi…

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  Stanground Newt Ponds · 1.4 km

  Stanground Newt Ponds is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) nature reserve in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. The land was originally set…

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  Old Fletton Urban District · 1.5 km

  Old Fletton was an urban district in the county of Huntingdonshire and then Huntingdon and Peterborough. The urban district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and now forms part of the city…

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  Stanground · 1.9 km

  Stanground is a residential area of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes, it comprises the Stanground South and Fletton & Stanground wards in the North West Cambrid…

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  Yaxley and Farcet railway station · 2.0 km

  Yaxley and Farcet railway station is a former station in Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, just south of Peterborough.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)