Upwell and Outwell

22°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 13° · 28% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:24

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Haringey Roadside, United Kingdom

18 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences15
• Public order1
• Vehicle crime1
• Other crime1

Neighbourhood team: Wisbech · 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)

29 food businesses within 2 miles

• 23 rated 4–5 ★ (22 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 2 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: 167.9p · BP (11.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (11.2 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons (4.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches6
• Playgrounds3

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
• 44 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

Conservative majority

• Con 35
• LD 2
• Oth 6

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,335 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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

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 South West Norfolk:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office431 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership382 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s319 local signatures · 217,501 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 cases252 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

• Outwell Basin railway station · 0.8 km

  Outwell Basin railway station was a stop on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway in Outwell, Norfolk. It opened in 1883 carrying passenger and goods traffic from nearby farms. It was closed to passengers in 1928, with goods…

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  Outwell · 1.2 km

  Outwell is a village and civil parish in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, in the English county of Norfolk.

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  Sander's Mill, Upwell · 1.2 km

  Sander's Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Upwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Originally standing in Cambridgeshire, it had five sails when built. Later raised by one storey and converted to four sails, it worked…

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  Beaupré Hall · 1.3 km

  Beaupré Hall was a large 16th-century house mainly of brick, which was built by the Beaupres in Outwell, Norfolk, England and enlarged by their successors the Bells. Like many of Britain's country houses it was demoli…

• Outwell Village railway station · 1.3 km

  Outwell Village railway station was a station in Outwell, Norfolk on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. It opened in 1884 and closed to passengers in 1928. Goods services ran on a while longer, before finishing in 1966.…

• Upwell railway station · 1.7 km

  Upwell railway station was a station in Upwell, Norfolk on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. It was opened in 1883 to carry passengers and agricultural wares to Wisbech where they would go to market, or be shipped off t…

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