Eastbourne

18°CCloudy

• Today: 19° / 16° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 18° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:22

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Eastbourne, United Kingdom

758 reported · July 2026▲ 15% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences240
• Anti-social behaviour204
• Public order56
• Shoplifting56

38 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Town Centre (Eastbourne) · Sussex

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

179 reported road collisions (2024)

52 killed or seriously injured · 224 casualties · 17.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 451 rated 4–5 ★ (377 top)
• 13 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Eastbourne (0.3 km)
• 60 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£251,811 average▼ 3.7% YoY

Across Eastbourne · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,166 average monthly rent▲ 0.7% YoY

• 1 bed £818
• 2 bed £1,076
• 3 bed £1,303

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

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (2.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.7p · Asda (4.2 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

20 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 80 kW
• Nearest: The Beacon Shopping Centre (0 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms3
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches36
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

101,686 residents in Eastbourne · 2,303/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 106 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,654 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (27% of 49,860)

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

33 schools · 14,294 pupils

18 primary · 4 secondary · 11 other

Ofsted: 9 of 12 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (75%)

28inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Eastbourne

703 CQC-registered services

• Care homes298
• GP practices80
• Dentists142
• Homecare agencies108
• Hospitals & hospices24

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · East Sussex

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

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

86 applications decided

75.6% granted · 65 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Josh Babarinde

Liberal Democrat

Eastbourne

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 8
• LD 19

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

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics10
• Pharmacies7
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens23
• Restaurants & cafés200

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,780 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

728 jobs advertised · £39,326 avg

e.g. Contracts Manager – Gate & Barrier Automation, Lifeguard, Lifeguard - Fixed Term Contract Available!

Source: Adzuna

£727 median full-time weekly pay

4.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,063 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: C · 57,151 certificates

11.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

66% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Imports 23% · Solar 11% · Gas 11%

58 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.2 yrs women · 79.5 yrs men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction6.7
• Feeling worthwhile7.2
• Happiness yesterday6.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Eastbourne:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership433 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office343 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s314 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership312 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test239 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

• Queenwood Ladies' College · 0.1 km

  Queenwood Ladies' College was a private school for girls, opened on a hill overlooking the sea in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. It was opened in 1871 by a Mrs Lawrance, the mother of Miss Grace Lawrance, founder o…

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  Central Methodist Church, Eastbourne · 0.2 km

  The former Central Methodist Church was until 2018 the main Methodist place of worship in Eastbourne, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex. The large town-centre building, with attached schoolrooms…

• Eastbourne rail crash · 0.2 km

  The Eastbourne rail crash was an accident on the British railway system which occurred on 25 August 1958 at Eastbourne railway station in East Sussex. The accident killed five people and injured 41 others. Eastbourne…

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  Holy Trinity Church, Eastbourne · 0.3 km

  The Holy Trinity Church, Eastbourne, is an Anglican Early English-style place of worship in Eastbourne in the English county of East Sussex.

• Ashford Road · 0.3 km

  Ashford Road was a cricket ground in Eastbourne, Sussex. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1857, when Eastbourne played a United All-England Eleven. Sussex played Kent in the grounds first first-class matc…

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  Eastbourne railway station · 0.3 km

  Eastbourne railway station serves the seaside town of Eastbourne in East Sussex, England. It is on the East Coastway Line. The station is managed by Southern, who operate all trains serving it. It is one of two railwa…

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