Horden

14°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 14° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:29

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

35US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Sunderland Silksworth, United Kingdom

267 reported · July 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences114
• Criminal damage & arson37
• Anti-social behaviour36
• Shoplifting21

12 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Peterlee (Horden) · Durham

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

452 reported road collisions (2024)

180 killed or seriously injured · 584 casualties · 8.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

182 food businesses within 2 miles

• 131 rated 4–5 ★ (99 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Horden (0.6 km)
• 44 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£138,148 average▲ 7% YoY

Across County Durham · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£645 average monthly rent▲ 6% YoY

• 1 bed £453
• 2 bed £574
• 3 bed £688

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

4.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.3 times median annual pay (3.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (3.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.7p · Asda (10.9 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: DCC Horden Railway Station Car Park 1 (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches24
• Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

522,068 residents in County Durham · 234/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 65 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,622 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (56% of 255,650)

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

280 schools · 73,802 pupils

208 primary · 30 secondary · 42 other

Ofsted: 99 of 116 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

259inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · County Durham

415 CQC-registered services

• Care homes146
• GP practices73
• Dentists87
• Homecare agencies65
• Hospitals & hospices13

CQC ratings: 95% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · County Durham

• Not in the Green Belt
• 4 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

393 applications decided

93.1% granted · 366 granted, 27 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Grahame Morris

Labour

Easington

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 5
• Con 1
• LD 15
• Grn 2
• Ref 55
• Oth 20

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

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,810 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

27 jobs advertised · £39,000 avg

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Source: Adzuna

£661 median full-time weekly pay

3.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,261 disposable income per head (2024)

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

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 307,169 certificates

11.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

38% low-carbon electricity

Imports 62% · Nuclear 17% · Biomass 13% · Solar 6%

17 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 78.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 55.4 women · 55.9 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• 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 Easington:

• Mandate standardised cancer training for all GPs in England641 local signatures · 17,297 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office410 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership308 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s297 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth284 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

• Darlington Town F.C. · 0.1 km

  Darlington Town is a football club based in Darlington, in County Durham, England. The club was formed in 2018, taking the place in the Wearside League of the reserve side for Darlington F.C., which itself had formed…

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  Horden Community Welfare F.C. · 0.1 km

  Horden Community Welfare Football Club is a football club based in Horden, County Durham, England. The club was formed as Horden Athletic in 1907, changing its name to Horden Welfare in 1928, and joined the North East…

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  Horden · 0.2 km

  Horden is a village and electoral ward in County Durham, England. It is situated on the North Sea coast, to the east of Peterlee, approximately 12 miles south of Sunderland. Horden was a mining village until the closu…

• Horden Colliery · 0.3 km

  Horden Colliery was a coal mine in Horden, near Peterlee in County Durham, in Northeast England.

• Yoden Village Quarry · 0.6 km

  Yoden Village Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Easington district of east County Durham, England. It is a disused quarry in the Horden district of Peterlee, adjacent to the site of the medieval v…

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  Horden railway station · 0.6 km

  Horden is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station, situated 10 miles 74 chains (17.6 km) south-east of Sunderland, serves the villages of…

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