Bere Regis

16°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 17° / 11° · 8% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:38

13h 5m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bournemouth, United Kingdom

9 reported · July 2026▲ 80% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Anti-social behaviour2
• Other theft2
• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: Purbeck North · Dorset

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

686 reported road collisions (2024)

156 killed or seriously injured · 883 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

16 food businesses within 2 miles

• 16 rated 4–5 ★ (14 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£325,410 average▲ 1.6% YoY

Across Dorset · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,051 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £728
• 2 bed £961
• 3 bed £1,184

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

9.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.9 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Asda (9.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Asda (9.7 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches4
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

379,579 residents in Dorset · 152/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 197 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,765 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 187,680)

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

184 schools · 51,332 pupils

119 primary · 18 secondary · 47 other

Ofsted: 68 of 86 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

158inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dorset

385 CQC-registered services

• Care homes121
• GP practices59
• Dentists84
• Homecare agencies86
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Dorset

• In a conservation area (Bere Regis Conservation Area)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 48 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

662 applications decided

92.4% granted · 612 granted, 50 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Vikki Slade

Liberal Democrat

Mid Dorset and North Poole

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

• Lab 2
• Con 30
• LD 42
• Grn 4
• Oth 4

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

20,515 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised

e.g. Deliver with Uber Eats - Sign Up and Start Earning, Be Your Own Boss - Deliver with Uber Eats, Looking For Part-Time Opportunities? - Deliver with Uber Eats

Source: Adzuna

£737 median full-time weekly pay

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

£27,403 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 186,790 certificates

9.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

48% low-carbon electricity

Imports 37% · Solar 22% · Wind 17% · Gas 15%

86 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.6 women · 65.3 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

6 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in BH20

• Bovington Medical Centre
• Wareham Surgery
• Bere Regis Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Mid Dorset and North Poole:

• Cap Academy Trust CEO Pay and Protect School Funding for Children646 local signatures · 3,627 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership371 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office347 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test320 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership286 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Bere Regis · 0.3 km

  Bere Regis is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Wareham. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 1,745.

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  Woodbury Hill, Dorset · 0.8 km

  Woodbury Hill is a hill near Bere Regis in Dorset, England. It is the site of an Iron Age hillfort, and the location of an annual fair from medieval times until the mid 20th century.

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  Shitterton · 0.9 km

  Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis, Dorset, England. It includes a collection of historic thatched buildings dating back to the 18th century and earlier. Its name dates back at least to the eleventh century and mean…

• Black Hill Heath · 1.5 km

  Black Hill Heath is a 69.67 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, notified in 1989.

• Bere Regis Hundred · 2.3 km

  Bere Regis Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the parishes of Bere Regis and Winterborne Kingston.

• Bere Stream · 2.6 km

  Bere Stream is an 11.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, notified in 1977.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)