King's Dyke

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 8° · 60% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:00Sunset 16:27

9h 27m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

• 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

7 reported · August 2026▲ 250% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Other crime2
• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: March · Cambridgeshire

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

129 reported road collisions (2025)

41 killed or seriously injured · 185 casualties · 12.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

74 food businesses within 2 miles

• 69 rated 4–5 ★ (64 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Whittlesea (3.9 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£224,770 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£842 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

• 1 bed £627
• 2 bed £807
• 3 bed £979

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,413 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

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (2.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Esso (5.6 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

26 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: 4001342 (3.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,353
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,468
• Net moves+885

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 42 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,538 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 48,110)

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

47 schools · 13,993 pupils

31 primary · 4 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Fenland

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes139
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies139
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

158 applications decided

87.3% granted · 138 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative majority

• Con 35
• LD 2
• Oth 6

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

4,295 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,333 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,212 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Cambridgeshire): 61.5 women · 62.3 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

8 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in PE7

• Yaxley Group Practice
• New Queen Street Surgery
• Hampton Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases337 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth215 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK159 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND158 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills147 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

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  Must Farm · 0.2 km

  Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudd…

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  Flag Fen · 2.4 km

  Flag Fen, east of Peterborough, England, is a Bronze Age site which was constructed about 3,500 years ago and consists of more than 60,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows, creating a wooden causeway across the…

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  Stanground North · 2.7 km

  Stanground North is a former civil parish in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of zero. The parish, which covered open fields on a fl…

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  Stanground · 2.9 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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  Whittlesey Rural District · 3.0 km

  Whittlesey was a rural district in the Isle of Ely from 1894 to 1926. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Whittlesey rural sanitary district, and consisted of one civil parish – Whittlesey Rural.

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  Stanground Wash · 3.1 km

  Stanground Wash is a 26 hectare nature reserve in Stanground, a suburb of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)