March

15°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 20° / 11° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:22Sunset 19:31

13h 9m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

149 reported · July 2026▼ 10% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences75
• Anti-social behaviour23
• Drugs13
• Criminal damage & arson10

Neighbourhood team: March · Cambridgeshire

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

143 reported road collisions (2024)

38 killed or seriously injured · 197 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

119 food businesses within 2 miles

• 112 rated 4–5 ★ (105 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: March (1.0 km)
• 45 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£223,168 average▲ 1.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£840 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

• 1 bed £625
• 2 bed £804
• 3 bed £976

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (11.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (11.3 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: The Cobblestones Pub & Restaurant (2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches33
• Playgrounds14

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 51 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

38inspected 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 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
• 41 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

159 applications decided

86.8% granted · 138 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Steve Barclay

Conservative

North East Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Con 35
• LD 2
• Oth 6

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

• Schools7
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens23
• Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,335 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

153 jobs advertised · £38,112 avg

e.g. Online French Tutoring Job in Benwick – Flexible Schedule, Online Spanish Tutoring Job in Manea – Flexible Schedule, Container Unloader

Source: Adzuna

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.9% 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

39% low-carbon electricity

Gas 57% · Nuclear 24% · Biomass 9% · Wind 6%

238 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office425 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership409 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases337 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test300 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Require NHS to offer routine third trimester pregnancy ultrasound scan288 local signatures · 10,387 nationwide

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

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  March, Cambridgeshire · 0.0 km

  March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. The administr…

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  March Town Hall · 0.2 km

  March Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square in March, Cambridgeshire, England. The building, which was the headquarters of March Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

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  March Town United F.C. · 0.4 km

  March Town United Football Club is a football club based in March, Cambridgeshire, England. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Premier Division and play at the GER Sports Ground.

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  Fenland Hall, March · 0.7 km

  Fenland Hall is a municipal building on County Road, March, Cambridgeshire, England, which serves as the headquarters of Fenland District Council. The building was originally called "County Hall", and was built in 190…

• The Avenue Sports Club Ground · 1.0 km

  The Avenue Sports Club Ground is a cricket ground in March, Cambridgeshire. The ground was established in 1939, when Cambridgeshire played Suffolk in the grounds first Minor Counties Championship match. From 1935 to t…

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  March railway station · 1.0 km

  March railway station is a railway station on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the market town of March, Cambridgeshire, England. It is 85 miles 76 chains (138.3 km) measured from London Liv…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)