Aveley

23°CSunny

• Today: 24° / 15° · 24% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 18° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:27Sunset 19:22

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

8US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Dartford - St Clements 2, United Kingdom

96 reported · July 2026▲ 1% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences46
• Criminal damage & arson13
• Anti-social behaviour9
• Vehicle crime5

7 stop & searches · mostly stolen goods

Neighbourhood team: Aveley and Ockendon · Essex

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

218 reported road collisions (2024)

42 killed or seriously injured · 276 casualties · 12.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

264 food businesses within 2 miles

• 235 rated 4–5 ★ (196 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Purfleet (2.5 km)
• 30 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£327,176 average▲ 2.3% YoY

Across Thurrock · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,375 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £937
• 2 bed £1,210
• 3 bed £1,468

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

8.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.7 times median annual pay (9.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · BP (8.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · Asda (7.4 km)

40 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

85 charging locations within ~8 km

• 25 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Moto Thurrock M25 Services Nomadpower (1.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches32
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

176,001 residents in Thurrock · 1,074/km²

• Under 16: 23%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 116 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,255 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (39% of 70,290)

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

58 schools · 31,239 pupils

39 primary · 13 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 19 of 24 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

56inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Thurrock

182 CQC-registered services

• Care homes26
• GP practices30
• Dentists29
• Homecare agencies82
• Hospitals & hospices5

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Thurrock

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

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

142 applications decided

80.3% granted · 114 granted, 28 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Jen Craft

Labour

Thurrock

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 4
• Con 2
• Ref 43

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens9
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,065 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

53 jobs advertised · £43,251 avg

e.g. Delivery Driver - Purfleet, Class 1 Driver, Driver

Source: Adzuna

£853 median full-time weekly pay

4.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,662 disposable income per head (2024)

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

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 73,858 certificates

8.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

92% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Solar 19% · Nuclear 18% · Gas 8%

33 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.4 yrs women · 79.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.2 women · 58.9 men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

6 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in RM15

• Aveley Medical Centre
• Peartree Surgery & West Horndon Surgery
• Sancta Maria Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Thurrock:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s411 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test357 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office353 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership257 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance195 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

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  Aveley · 0.0 km

  Aveley is a town in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It lies 16 miles (26 km) east of Charing Cross. It is inside the M25 motorway which encircles London, but lies just outside the Greater London boundary. A…

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  Ormiston Park Academy · 0.4 km

  Ormiston Park Academy, formerly the Belhus Chase Specialist Humanities College, is now a secondary school and academy located in Aveley, Essex, England. The school was reformed as an academy in 2009 under the sponsors…

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  Old Ship, Aveley · 0.5 km

  The Old Ship is a public house in Aveley, Essex, in England. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

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  Grays Athletic F.C. · 0.6 km

  Grays Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Grays, Essex, England. It is currently a member of the Isthmian League North Division. The team play at Chadfields in nearby Tilbury.

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  Brimsdown F.C. · 0.6 km

  Brimsdown Football Club is a football club based in Brimsdown in the London Borough of Enfield, England. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Division One South and play at Aveley's Parkside ground.

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  Aveley F.C. · 0.6 km

  Aveley Football Club are a professional football club based in Aveley, Essex, England. They are currently members of the Isthmian League Premier Division and play at Parkside.

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