Hemyock

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 12° / 7° · 14% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:05Sunset 16:47

9h 43m 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 · Cardiff Centre, United Kingdom

• 5.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

7 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences5
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: Lower Culm & Upper Culm · Devon And Cornwall

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

136 reported road collisions (2025)

21 killed or seriously injured · 188 casualties · 16.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

3 food businesses within 2 miles

• 3 rated 4–5 ★ (3 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£285,982 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across Mid Devon · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£878 average monthly rent▲ 1.3% YoY

• 1 bed £641
• 2 bed £809
• 3 bed £995

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

8.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.4 times median annual pay (7.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,067 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 180.9p · BP (8.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 212.9p · BP (8.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Dunkeswell airfield (5.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches4
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

82,852 residents in Mid Devon · 91/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,360
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,552
• Net moves+808

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Around the average in England

Ranked 126 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,656 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (24% of 38,630)

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

42 schools · 9,804 pupils

35 primary · 4 secondary · 3 other

Ofsted: 16 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

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

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

829 CQC-registered services

• Care homes309
• GP practices118
• Dentists156
• 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
• 27 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

162 applications decided

93.8% granted · 152 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal Democrat

Tiverton and Minehead

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 3
• LD 33
• Grn 3
• Oth 2

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

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,060 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

1 jobs advertised · £27,061 avg

e.g. Teaching Assistant

Source: Adzuna

£719 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,377 disposable income per head (2024)

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

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 39,478 certificates

11.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

11% low-carbon electricity

Gas 89% · Solar 10% · Wind 1%

350 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 80.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Devon): 64 women · 63.7 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

3 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in EX15

• Blackdown Practice
• College Surgery Partnership
• Bramblehaies Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Tiverton and Minehead:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks411 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones359 local signatures · 38,553 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases260 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND215 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately180 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Hemyock Castle · 0.2 km

  Hemyock Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle in the village of Hemyock, Devon, England. It was built by Sir William Asthorpe after 1380 to a quadrangular design. It would have been visually impressive, but not parti…

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  Hemyock · 0.5 km

  Hemyock is a village and civil parish in Devon, England. It is about 8 miles north-west of Honiton and 5 miles (8 km) south of the Somerset town Wellington. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,519. H…

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  Hemyock railway station · 0.7 km

  Hemyock railway station served the village of Hemyock, Devon, England, from 1876 to 1963 on the Culm Valley Light Railway.

• Whitehall Halt railway station · 1.4 km

  Whitehall Halt railway station existed on the Culm Valley Light Railway in Devon, England, from 1933 to 1963.

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  Ashculme · 1.9 km

  Ashculme is a hamlet in Devon.

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  Culm Davy · 2.2 km

  Culm Davy is a historic manor and present-day hamlet within the parish of Hemyock in Devon.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)