Southwick (Adur)

18°CClear

• Today: 19° / 17° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 18° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:24

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

288 reported · July 2026▲ 22% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences91
• Anti-social behaviour78
• Public order25
• Shoplifting22

5 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: South Portslade · Sussex

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

543 reported road collisions (2024)

148 killed or seriously injured · 625 casualties · 19.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 441 rated 4–5 ★ (377 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Fishersgate (0.2 km)
• 67 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£407,803 average▲ 0.3% YoY

Across Brighton and Hove · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,809 average monthly rent▼ 1.1% YoY

• 1 bed £1,190
• 2 bed £1,518
• 3 bed £1,797

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

10.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.6 times median annual pay (10.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 159.9p · Esso (7.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · ESSO (10 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Crown Road, Portslade, Lamp Column 3 (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms2
• Swimming pools34
• Sports pitches31
• Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

277,104 residents in Brighton and Hove · 3,345/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 71%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 140 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,581 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (26% of 136,090)

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

82 schools · 32,976 pupils

47 primary · 10 secondary · 25 other

Ofsted: 21 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

63inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Brighton and Hove

324 CQC-registered services

• Care homes86
• GP practices55
• Dentists87
• Homecare agencies54
• Hospitals & hospices10

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Brighton and Hove

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

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

384 applications decided

91.7% granted · 352 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Tom Rutland

Labour

East Worthing and Shoreham

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 31
• Con 5
• Grn 11
• Oth 6

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

• Schools12
• GPs & clinics6
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets6
• Parks & greens20
• Restaurants & cafés59

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

15,910 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£766 median full-time weekly pay

4.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£30,073 disposable income per head (2024)

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

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 166,539 certificates

12.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

70% low-carbon electricity

Wind 49% · Gas 16% · Imports 14% · Solar 8%

76 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 62.6 women · 61.1 men

55% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• 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 East Worthing and Shoreham:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership453 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership435 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases382 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s342 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office306 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  Fishersgate railway station · 0.2 km

  Fishersgate railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England, serving both the eastern part of Southwick, as well as the western part of Portslade in Brighton and Hove. The station is operated by Southern…

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  Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton · 0.3 km

  Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton is a Swaminarayan Hindu Temple located in the Portslade area of the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south east coast of England. Inaugurated on 19 September 1999, the 10th Swaminar…

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  Southwick F.C. · 0.5 km

  Southwick Football Club was a football club based in Southwick, West Sussex, England. The club was founded in 1882 and was among the founding members of the Sussex County League, which they won six times. Their home g…

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  Portslade Town Hall · 0.6 km

  Portslade Town Hall, formerly the Ronuk Hall and Welfare Institute, is a municipal building in Victoria Road in Portslade, East Sussex, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Portslade Urban District C…

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  St Nicolas Church, Portslade · 0.8 km

  St Nicolas Church is an Anglican church in the Portslade area of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It has 12th-century origins, and serves the old village of Portslade, inland from the mostly 19th-century Portsla…

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  Portslade Manor · 0.8 km

  Portslade Old Manor is one of the very few examples of Norman manor houses that still exist in England. It has been deemed a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and a Grade II* listed building.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)