Camden

23°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 24° / 15° · 11% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 17° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:24

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · London Bloomsbury, United Kingdom

3513 reported · July 2026▼ 7% YoY

• Other theft756
• Theft from the person553
• Violence & sexual offences543
• Shoplifting516

321 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Fleet · City Of London

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

166 reported road collisions (2024)

54 killed or seriously injured · 184 casualties · 193.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 342 rated 4–5 ★ (265 top)
• 24 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Chancery Lane (0.1 km)
• 124 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£712,958 average▼ 20.4% YoY

Across City of London · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

11.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.1 times median annual pay (11.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (4.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (4.3 km)

77 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Lincolns Inn (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres9
• Gyms48
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches73
• Playgrounds48

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,585 residents in City of London · 2,975/km²

• Under 16: 7%
• 16–64: 79%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 208 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£1,330 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band E (36% of 8,060)

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

8 schools · 2,891 pupils

1 primary · 7 other

Ofsted: 1 of 1 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

1inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · City of London

111 CQC-registered services

• GP practices45
• Dentists36
• Homecare agencies16
• Hospitals & hospices2

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · City of London

• In a conservation area (Chancery Lane)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 2,065 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

133 applications decided

96.2% granted · 128 granted, 5 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Rachel Blake

Labour (Co-op)

Cities of London and Westminster

Source: UK Parliament

Independent majority

• Lab 7
• Oth 118

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

• Schools35
• GPs & clinics86
• Pharmacies29
• Supermarkets15
• Parks & greens283
• Restaurants & cafés1772

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

27,050 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

330 jobs advertised · £46,684 avg

e.g. Day-to-Day Primary Teachers - Hampstead, Cleaner, Teaching Assistant Primary School

Source: Adzuna

1.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£109,153 disposable income per head (2024)

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

65% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 9,408 certificates

4.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 36% · Solar 30% · Imports 16% · Nuclear 10%

41 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for London · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: -1 yrs women · -1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: -1 women · -1 men

51% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Cities of London and Westminster:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership2,026 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s694 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Sever UK-Iran ties, withdraw recognition of Iran’s regime & expel all diplomats473 local signatures · 26,542 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office218 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership209 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Kingsway telephone exchange · 0.0 km

  Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War-era hardened telephone exchange underneath Chancery Lane tube station in High Holborn in London. Initially built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in the early 1940s, it was i…

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  Furnival's Inn · 0.0 km

  Furnival's Inn was an Inn of Chancery which formerly stood on the site of the present Holborn Bars building in Holborn, London, England.

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  Barnard's Inn · 0.0 km

  Barnard's Inn is a former Inn of Chancery in Holborn, London. It is now the home of Gresham College, an institution of higher learning established in 1597 that hosts public lectures.

• Mercers' School · 0.0 km

  The Mercers' School was an independent school in the City of London, England, with a history going back at least to 1542, and perhaps much further. It was operated by the Worshipful Company of Mercers and was closed…

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  Holborn Bars · 0.0 km

  Holborn Bars, also known as the Prudential Assurance Building, is a large red terracotta Victorian building on the north side (138–142) of Holborn in Camden at the boundary of the City of London, England. The block is…

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  Royal Fusiliers War Memorial · 0.0 km

  The Royal Fusiliers War Memorial is a memorial in London, dedicated to the members of the Royal Fusiliers killed in the World Wars, Russian Civil War and subsequent conflicts, along with members of a number of London…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)