Great Cowden

12°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 21° / 12° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:26

13h 0m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Hull Freetown, United Kingdom

1 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: North Holderness · Humberside

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

600 reported road collisions (2024)

168 killed or seriously injured · 813 casualties · 17.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

7 food businesses within 2 miles

• 7 rated 4–5 ★ (7 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

1 active warning/alert

• Flood alert: North Sea coast at Withernsea, Easington and Kilnsea

Source: Environment Agency

• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£220,721 average▲ 3.7% YoY

Across East Riding of Yorkshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£724 average monthly rent▲ 4.7% YoY

• 1 bed £502
• 2 bed £650
• 3 bed £799

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

6.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.4 times median annual pay (6.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

3 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 7 kW
• Nearest: Cowden Holiday Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

342,217 residents in East Riding of Yorkshire · 142/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 217 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

6% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,466 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (24% of 166,380)

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

159 schools · 45,725 pupils

124 primary · 17 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 64 of 72 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

150inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · East Riding of Yorkshire

352 CQC-registered services

• Care homes151
• GP practices40
• Dentists66
• Homecare agencies61
• Hospitals & hospices12

CQC ratings: 85% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · East Riding of Yorkshire

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

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

414 applications decided

88.2% granted · 365 granted, 49 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 4
• Con 23
• LD 21
• Grn 1
• Ref 3
• Oth 15

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

15,795 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£756 median full-time weekly pay

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

£24,783 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 168,124 certificates

13% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 80.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.5 women · 59.5 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bridlington and The Wolds:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office434 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership272 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s269 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test268 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership242 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

• 
  Great Cowden · 0.1 km

  Great Cowden is a hamlet in the civil parish of Mappleton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) south of Hornsea and lies just east of t…

• 
  Mappleton · 1.2 km

  Mappleton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the North Sea coastline in an area known as Holderness, lying approximately 3 miles (5 km) south of the seaside resor…

• 
  RAF Cowden · 2.5 km

  RAF Cowden was a Royal Air Force bombing range, near to the village of Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site was used by the RAF and other air forces between 1959 and 1998, though the land part of the…

• 
  Rolston · 2.9 km

  Rolston is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hornsea and lies just west of the B1242 road.

• 
  Colden Parva · 4.1 km

  Colden Parva is a former village and ecclesiastical parish of the East Riding of Yorkshire that was lost due to coastal erosion. The name persisted as part of the ecclesiastical parish covering nearby Aldbrough until…

• 
  Withernwick · 4.1 km

  Withernwick is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Hull city centre and 5 miles (8 km) south of Hornsea.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)