Halwill Junction

15°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 19° / 12° · 39% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 12° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 19:42

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Barnstaple A39, United Kingdom

5 reported · July 2026▲ 25% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences5

Neighbourhood team: Okehampton Rural West · Devon And Cornwall

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

105 reported road collisions (2024)

16 killed or seriously injured · 140 casualties · 15.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

7 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£260,783 average▲ 3.9% YoY

Across Torridge · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£788 average monthly rent▲ 2.5% YoY

• 1 bed £564
• 2 bed £738
• 3 bed £906

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

8.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.2 times median annual pay (8.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Hole Farm (4.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

68,113 residents in Torridge · 69/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 56%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 67 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,601 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (24% of 34,600)

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

36 schools · 8,421 pupils

28 primary · 4 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 11 of 15 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (73%)

33inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Torridge

832 CQC-registered services

• Care homes310
• GP practices118
• Dentists158
• Homecare agencies155
• Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Devon

• Not in the Green Belt
• 2 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

123 applications decided

89.4% granted · 110 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sir Geoffrey Cox

Conservative

Torridge and Tavistock

Source: UK Parliament

Independent majority

• Lab 2
• Con 5
• LD 12
• Grn 4
• Oth 13

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,075 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£684 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,212 disposable income per head (2024)

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

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 38,447 certificates

12.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

5% low-carbon electricity

Gas 95% · Wind 5%

375 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86 yrs women · 82.5 yrs men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• Happiness yesterday8.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Torridge and Tavistock:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership461 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects369 local signatures · 14,312 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office347 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership338 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases324 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Halwill Junction railway station · 0.4 km

  Halwill Junction Railway Station was a railway station in Halwill Junction, near the villages of Halwill and Beaworthy in Devon, England. It opened in 1879 and formed an important junction between the now-closed Bude…

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  Beaworthy · 1.9 km

  Beaworthy is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 236.

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  Halwill · 2.1 km

  Halwill is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district, in Devon, England, just off the A3079 Okehampton to Holsworthy road. About a mile away on the main road is another settlement called Halwill Junction. In…

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  Odham · 3.1 km

  Odham is a hamlet in Devon, England.

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  Brandis Corner · 4.1 km

  Brandis Corner is a hamlet on the A3072 within the civil parish of Holsworthy in Devon, England.

• Whiteleigh Meadows · 4.3 km

  Whiteleigh Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon, England, east of Holsworthy. It was designated as a protected area in 1987 because of its plant diversity in unimproved grassland. It is dominated…

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