Hatherleigh

19°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 10° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:45Sunset 19:39

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

8US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Barnstaple A39, United Kingdom

8 reported · July 2026▼ 27% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences7
• Public order1

Neighbourhood team: Okehampton Rural West · Devon And Cornwall

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

100 reported road collisions (2024)

31 killed or seriously injured · 160 casualties · 17.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 10 rated 4–5 ★ (7 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£286,145 average▼ 0.7% YoY

Across West Devon · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£840 average monthly rent▲ 2.1% YoY

• 1 bed £598
• 2 bed £766
• 3 bed £945

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

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (8.5× 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: Hatherleigh Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches4
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

57,098 residents in West Devon · 49/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 139 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,705 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 27,470)

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

37 schools · 6,412 pupils

29 primary · 2 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 16 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

32inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Devon

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

• In a conservation area (Hatherleigh)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 79 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

90 applications decided

94.4% granted · 85 granted, 5 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sir Mel Stride

Conservative

Central Devon

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Green / Liberal Democrat / Labour coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 10
• LD 6
• Grn 3
• Oth 11

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

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets1
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,530 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

17 jobs advertised · £55,056 avg

e.g. Project Engineer, Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Delivery Opportunities Near Me? - Deliver with Uber Eats

Source: Adzuna

£662 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,196 disposable income per head (2024)

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

36% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 28,821 certificates

12.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

76% low-carbon electricity

Solar 56% · Gas 19% · Wind 18% · Imports 5%

78 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82 yrs men

57% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.9
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2021-22

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Central Devon:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership637 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases404 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership374 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office343 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks319 local signatures · 49,615 nationwide

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

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  Hatherleigh · 0.6 km

  Hatherleigh is a small market town in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1306.

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  Hatherleigh railway station · 1.3 km

  Hatherleigh Railway Station was a station on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway between Torrington and Halwill Junction, serving the town of Hatherleigh. Hatherleigh was the largest place with a stati…

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  River Lew · 1.4 km

  The River Lew can refer to either of two short rivers that lie close to each other in Devon, England.

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  Meeth · 3.2 km

  Meeth is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England roughly 13.5 km (8.4 mi) north-northwest of Okehampton and 40.7 km (25.3 mi) west-northwest of Exeter. It lies to the wes…

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  Meeth Halt railway station · 3.4 km

  Opened in 1925, Meeth Halt was a small railway station on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, a private line until it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948. The line was built…

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  River Okement · 3.5 km

  The River Okement is a tributary of the River Torridge in Devon, England. It rises at two places in Dartmoor, as the West Okement and the East Okement. These meet with other minor streams and join together at Okehampt…

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