Sopley

17°COvercast

• Today: 21° / 12° · 15% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:30

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Christchurch Barrack Road, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026▼ 57% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Other theft1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Ringwood and Fordingbridge · Hampshire

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

707 reported road collisions (2024)

110 killed or seriously injured · 793 casualties · 17.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

53 food businesses within 2 miles

• 45 rated 4–5 ★ (38 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Christchurch (3.8 km)
• 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,399 average monthly rent▲ 3% YoY

• 1 bed £919
• 2 bed £1,170
• 3 bed £1,457

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

9.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.1 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · Esso (8.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · ESSO (3.6 km)

15 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

48 charging locations within ~8 km

• 18 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: The Fisherman's Haunt (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches2
• Golf courses1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

400,198 residents in Bournemouth, Christchurch an · 2,469/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 166 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,436 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (29% of 190,200)

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

117 schools · 54,556 pupils

66 primary · 21 secondary · 30 other

Ofsted: 38 of 41 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

100inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bournemouth, Christchurch an

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 (Sopley)
• Within the Green Belt
• 28 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

566 applications decided

81.6% granted · 462 granted, 104 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sir Desmond Swayne

Conservative

New Forest West

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 8
• Con 9
• LD 28
• Grn 5
• Ref 3
• Oth 23

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

• Schools2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

18,315 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

11 jobs advertised

e.g. Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Delivery Opportunities Near Me? - Deliver with Uber Eats, Online Economics Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£729 median full-time weekly pay

3.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,164 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 215,334 certificates

9.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

74% low-carbon electricity

Wind 44% · Gas 14% · Biomass 13% · Imports 12%

77 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85 yrs women · 81 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 61.5 women · 61.4 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in New Forest West:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases557 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership323 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office277 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership247 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s219 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Sopley · 0.2 km

  Sopley is a village and civil parish in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. The village lies on the old main road from Christchurch to Ringwood, on the east bank of the River Avon. The parish extends e…

• Moorlands College · 0.5 km

  Moorlands College is an Evangelical Christian training college with a campus in Sopley Dorset, and a regional Centre in Devon. All degree courses are validated by the University of Gloucestershire. The college is non…

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  RAF Sopley · 0.9 km

  Royal Air Force Sopley or more simply RAF Sopley is a former Royal Air Force Second World War Radar station, codenamed Starlight, near the village of Sopley, Hampshire, England. The radar station was opened in Decembe…

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  RAF Winkton · 1.0 km

  Royal Air Force Winkton, or more simply RAF Winkton, is a former Royal Air Force Advanced landing ground previously in Hampshire but now, due to County boundary changes, in Dorset, England. The airfield is located app…

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  1958 BOAC Bristol Britannia crash · 1.1 km

  G-AOVD was a Bristol Britannia 312 operated by BOAC which crashed near Christchurch, Dorset, in the south of England on Christmas Eve 1958, killing two of the five crew and all seven passengers.

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  Winkton, Dorset · 1.2 km

  Winkton is a hamlet to the north of Christchurch in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Together with the village of Burton, it is in the civil parish of Burto…

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