Littleham

10°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 8° · 24% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:46

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Barnstaple A39, United Kingdom

• 4.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 3.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

100 reported road collisions (2025)

19 killed or seriously injured · 124 casualties · 14.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

28 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£267,174 average▲ 0.3% YoY

Across Torridge · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£789 average monthly rent▲ 2.1% YoY

• 1 bed £565
• 2 bed £739
• 3 bed £908

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

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

1,000 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: 169.7p · Asda (2.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.7p · Asda (2.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Blights Motors (3.1 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,644
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK3,578
• Net moves+1,066

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

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 54 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

38 schools · 8,421 pupils

29 primary · 4 secondary · 5 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Torridge

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
• 15 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

139 applications decided

95.7% granted · 133 granted, 6 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Independent majority

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

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

4,075 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£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

Life expectancy: 86 yrs women · 82.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Devon): 64 women · 63.7 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

5 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in EX39

• Northam Surgery
• Bideford Medical Centre
• Wooda Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Torridge and Tavistock:

• Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones5,996 local signatures · 38,553 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects450 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks411 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases326 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately247 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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  Orleigh Court · 0.7 km

  Orleigh Court is a late medieval manor house in the parish of Buckland Brewer about 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Bideford, North Devon, England. It is a two-storeyed building constructed from local slate stone and h…

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  Manor of Orleigh · 0.7 km

  Orleigh is a historic manor in the parish of Buckland Brewer, situated 4 miles to the south west of Bideford, North Devon, England. The manor house is known as Orleigh Court.

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  Littleham · 0.9 km

  Littleham is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of north Devon in south west England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Bideford. The parish had a population of 446 at the 2011 census.

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  Church of St Mary and St Benedict, Buckland Brewer · 2.4 km

  St Mary and St Benedict is the Church of England parish church for the village of Buckland Brewer near Bideford in North Devon. It is part of the benefice of the Hartland Coast Team Ministry. This falls within Hartlan…

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  Buckland Brewer · 2.4 km

  Buckland Brewer is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, 4.7 miles south of Bideford. Historically the parish formed part of Shebbear Hundred. According to the 2001 census it had a po…

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  Annery, Monkleigh · 2.5 km

  Annery was an historic estate in the parish of Monkleigh, North Devon.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)