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Ticehurst

Ticehurst is a village in East Sussex, England, with a population of around 1,705. There are around 1 restaurants and cafés, 2 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Stonegate, 4.3 km away. There were around 11 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ticehurst area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Rother area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 93,113 residents at roughly 183 people per km².

Council
Rother
County
East Sussex
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle
Police force
Sussex
48/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 158th of 294 English council areas — better than 46% of them.

Low crime68
Home affordability19
Affordable rents26
Good schools74
Life expectancy71
Low deprivation31
Employment52
Low council tax3

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 9° · 60% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:29

9h 35m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Eastbourne, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

2 reported · August 2026▼ 83% YoY

  • Other theft1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Ticehurst, Etchingham, Flimwell, and Stonegate · Sussex

Local policing priorities

  • Road Safety
  • Anti-social behaviour

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

Road safety

204 reported road collisions (2025)

65 killed or seriously injured · 285 casualties · 21.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

23 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 22 rated 4–5 ★ (19 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Stonegate (4.3 km)
  • 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Stonegate (4.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£335,680 average▼ 1.9% YoY

Across Rother · to 2026-08

Detached£562,175
Semi-detached£366,684
Terraced£290,456
Flat£181,563

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,165 average monthly rent▲ 0.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £804
  • 2 bed £1,031
  • 3 bed £1,295

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

11.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.0 times median annual pay (10.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,282 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 140.8p · AppleGreen (7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 148.8p · AppleGreen (7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

5 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: Dale Hill Hotel & Golf Club (1.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches7
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

93,113 residents in Rother · 183/km²

  • Under 16: 15%
  • 16–64: 53%
  • 65+: 32%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,370
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,385
  • Net moves+985

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 93 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,701 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (22% of 46,950)

A £1,801
B £2,101
C £2,401
D £2,701
E £3,301
F £3,901
G £4,502
H £5,402

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

Schools

52 schools · 12,933 pupils

32 primary · 5 secondary · 15 other

Ofsted: 13 of 14 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Rye CollegeGood
  • St Richard's Catholic CollegeGood
  • Robertsbridge Community CollegeInadequate
  • Bexhill High Academy
  • Claverham Community College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Rother

Care & health services

703 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes301
  • GP practices81
  • Dentists140
  • Homecare agencies107
  • Hospitals & hospices24

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

Source: Care Quality Commission · East Sussex

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Ticehurst)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 92 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

184 applications decided

92.4% granted · 170 granted, 14 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Dr Kieran Mullan

Conservative

Bexhill and Battle

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Labour / Green coalition

  • Lab 6
  • Con 12
  • LD 9
  • Grn 3
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 7

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens2
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,775 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£691 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£28,615 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 50,798 certificates

12.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

63% low-carbon electricity

Wind 51% · Imports 27% · Gas 10% · Nuclear 8%

79 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (East Sussex): 59.9 women · 59.2 men

56% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.9
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Health services

1 GP surgery · 2 pharmacies in TN5

  • Wadhurst Medical Group

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bexhill and Battle:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • St Mary's Church, Ticehurst · 0.1 km

    St Mary's Church is a 14th-century parish church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin in Ticehurst, East Sussex, England. Part of the Diocese of Chichester, the church has grade II* listed building status. In the church is…

  • Ticehurst · 0.4 km

    Ticehurst is both a village and a large civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The parish lies in the upper reaches of both the Bewl stream before it enters Bewl Water and in the upper reaches of…

  • Ticehurst House Hospital · 0.9 km

    Ticehurst House Hospital was a mental health facility. It opened in 1792 and was owned and run by five generations of members of the Newington family until 1970. In 2000, the hospital name changed from Ticehurst House…

  • Bewl Water · 2.7 km

    Bewl Water is a reservoir in the valley of the River Bewl, straddling the boundary between Kent and East Sussex in England. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Lamberhurst, Kent. The reservoir was part of a project…

  • Flimwell · 2.8 km

    Flimwell is a village in the civil parish of Ticehurst, in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. It is located close to the border with Kent at the junction of the A21 road with the A268 and the B2087. The vill…

  • Combwell Priory · 3.5 km

    Combwell Priory was a priory near Bedgebury Cross about 10 miles southeast of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Ticehurst?
Ticehurst is a town in East Sussex, England, in the Rother local authority.
What is the population of Ticehurst?
Ticehurst has an approximate settlement population of 1,705.
How deprived is Ticehurst?
The Rother local authority, which includes Ticehurst, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.