Upton (Dorset)

17°COvercast

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

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:31

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 · Bournemouth, United Kingdom

94 reported · July 2026▼ 10% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences37
• Anti-social behaviour23
• Criminal damage & arson14
• Other theft10

1 stop & searches · mostly stolen goods

Neighbourhood team: Poole South · Dorset

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)

334 food businesses within 2 miles

• 250 rated 4–5 ★ (233 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Hamworthy (0.7 km)
• 31 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: 167.9p · Asda (6.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Asda (4.4 km)

19 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

37 charging locations within ~8 km

• 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: The Anchorage (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches19
• Playgrounds13

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 4 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

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour

Poole

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)

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

18,315 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised · £31,268 avg

e.g. Venue Cleaner, Retail Customer Service, Mechanical Fitter

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

43% low-carbon electricity

Gas 33% · Wind 24% · Imports 24% · Biomass 14%

161 gCO₂/kWh · moderate 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 Poole:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership376 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office342 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s327 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership253 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Introduce national support standards for autistic children with PDA238 local signatures · 18,077 nationwide

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

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  Hamworthy railway station · 0.8 km

  Hamworthy railway station serves Hamworthy, an area of Poole in Dorset, England. It is a stop on the South West Main Line, located 115 miles 77 chains (186.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

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  Upton House, Dorset · 0.9 km

  Upton House is a country house in the grounds of Upton Country Park on the northwestern shoreline of Holes Bay in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. It is owned by BCP Council.

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  Holes Bay Nature Park · 0.9 km

  Holes Bay Nature Park is a protected area, 286 hectares in size, on and around Holes Bay, an embayment of Poole Harbour within the Borough of Poole that is important for wildlife, especially wetland birds. It was desi…

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  Turlin Moor · 0.9 km

  Turlin Moor is a suburb of Poole in Dorset, England, located between Hamworthy and Upton.

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  Upton, Dorset · 0.9 km

  Upton is a town in south-east Dorset, England. Upton is to the east of Holton Heath and Upton Heath, and to the north of the Poole suburb of Hamworthy. It is the second largest town in the Purbeck Hills.

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  Upton Clock Tower · 1.0 km

  The Upton Clock Tower is a landmark in Upton, Dorset.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)