Thorney

18°CCloudy

• Today: 23° / 12° · 70% 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

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

10 reported · July 2026▲ 11% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences4
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Burglary1
• Criminal damage & arson1

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

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 5 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: 136.8p · AppleGreen (10.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Morrisons (11 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

1 charging location within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 7 kW
• Nearest: SHDC Crowland (6.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches6
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds3

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

• In a conservation area (Thorney Conservation Area)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 42 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

Andrew Pakes

Labour (Co-op)

Peterborough

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)

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,540 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

477 jobs advertised · £47,245 avg

e.g. Driver, Mobile Mechanic, Delivery Driver - Peterborough

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

86% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Solar 17% · Gas 14% · Biomass 12%

71 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 Peterborough:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s475 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 355 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership310 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office293 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test162 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Thorney railway station · 0.1 km

  Thorney railway station was a station in Thorney, Cambridgeshire on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line between Peterborough and Wisbech.

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  Thorney, Cambridgeshire · 0.2 km

  Thorney is a village in the Peterborough unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Located around eight miles (13 km) east of Peterborough city centre, on the A47.

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  Thorney Abbey · 0.3 km

  Thorney Abbey, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was a medieval English Benedictine monastery at Thorney, Cambridgeshire in The Fens of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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  Wryde railway station · 3.4 km

  Wryde railway station was a station serving Wryde, Cambridgeshire on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between Wisbech and Peterborough. Originally built by the Peterborough, Wisbeach and Sutton Railway, it…

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  Thorney Rural District · 4.0 km

  Thorney was a rural district in England from 1894 to 1974, situated to the east of Peterborough.

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  Eye Green Local Nature Reserve · 5.2 km

  Eye Green Local Nature Reserve is a 12 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Eye Green in Cambridgeshire. It was managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire until September 2016, when…

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