Helpston

19°COvercast

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

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:26

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

7 reported · July 2026▲ 133% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences4
• Anti-social behaviour2
• Burglary1

Neighbourhood team: Peterborough North · Cambridgeshire

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

337 reported road collisions (2024)

64 killed or seriously injured · 471 casualties · 15.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 12 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Gunwade (FMR) (7.9 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,003 average monthly rent▲ 4.1% YoY

• 1 bed £703
• 2 bed £886
• 3 bed £1,068

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

6.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.7 times median annual pay (6.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 133.9p · BP (6.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 143.9p · BP (6.1 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

16 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Bannatyne Gym - Werrington (4.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

215,673 residents in Peterborough · 628/km²

• Under 16: 22%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 53 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

14% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,293 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (39% of 91,080)

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

90 schools · 40,976 pupils

60 primary · 12 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 34 of 40 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Peterborough

270 CQC-registered services

• Care homes38
• GP practices27
• Dentists47
• Homecare agencies124
• Hospitals & hospices7

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Peterborough

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

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

142 applications decided

82.4% granted · 117 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sam Carling

Labour

North West Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 10
• Con 14
• LD 8
• Grn 7
• Ref 5
• Oth 16

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,540 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised · £32,344 avg

e.g. Care Assistant - Driving License Required

Source: Adzuna

£711 median full-time weekly pay

5.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,966 disposable income per head (2024)

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

57% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 111,160 certificates

9.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

87% low-carbon electricity

Wind 52% · Biomass 27% · Gas 12% · Solar 6%

80 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 77.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 57.4 women · 58 men

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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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  John Clare Cottage · 0.2 km

  John Clare Cottage is a cottage and literary museum in Helpston, Peterborough, United Kingdom. The cottage was the birthplace of English poet John Clare (1793–1864).

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  Helpston · 0.3 km

  Helpston is an English village in Cambridgeshire. Historically; it was formerly in the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, subsequently (1965–1974) in Huntingdon and Peterborough, then in Cambridgeshire. It is a…

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  Helpston railway station · 1.2 km

  Helpston railway station was a station in Helpston, Cambridgeshire, on the Midland Railway's Syston and Peterborough Railway. It was closed in 1966. The Great Northern Railway main line runs adjacent to the Midland Ra…

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  Ashton, Cambridgeshire · 1.5 km

  Ashton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bainton, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. In 1881 the parish had a population of 106.

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  Etton, Cambridgeshire · 2.0 km

  Etton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in England. For electoral purposes it forms part of Northborough ward in North West Cambridgeshire constit…

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  Woodcroft Castle · 2.2 km

  Woodcroft Castle is a moated medieval castle in the parish of Etton, Cambridgeshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)