Canvey Island

11°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 12° / 9° · 66% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:27

9h 33m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

44US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Rochester Stoke, United Kingdom

• 7.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

221 reported · August 2026▲ 16% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences89
• Anti-social behaviour49
• Criminal damage & arson19
• Vehicle crime14

18 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Canvey · Essex

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

101 reported road collisions (2025)

19 killed or seriously injured · 119 casualties · 11.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

200 food businesses within 2 miles

• 182 rated 4–5 ★ (167 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Benfleet (2.8 km)
• 37 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£357,241 average▼ 4% YoY

Across Castle Point · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,262 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £943
• 2 bed £1,169
• 3 bed £1,425

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

9.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.8 times median annual pay (10.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,199 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

• Cheapest petrol: 135.8p · AppleGreen (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (10.5 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

9 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Lidl-Canvey Island (1.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches8
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

89,587 residents in Castle Point · 2,005/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,101
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,219
• Net moves+882

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 162 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,319 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (35% of 39,570)

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

32 schools · 12,631 pupils

23 primary · 5 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 13 of 16 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (81%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Castle Point

1,574 CQC-registered services

• Care homes408
• GP practices229
• Dentists312
• Homecare agencies474
• Hospitals & hospices40

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 17 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Essex

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

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

103 applications decided

82.5% granted · 85 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Rebecca Harris

Conservative

Castle Point

Source: UK Parliament

PIP / CIIP coalition

• Ref 1
• Oth 38

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

• Schools11
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,640 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

66 jobs advertised · £38,027 avg

e.g. Mortgage Broker, Terminal Jetty Operator, CNC Turner / Setter-Programmer - Precision Engineering – CNC Turning

Source: Adzuna

£805 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,682 disposable income per head (2024)

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

28% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 33,940 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 47% · Gas 22% · Nuclear 19% · Biomass 11%

101 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.3 yrs women · 80.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Essex): 62.4 women · 62.7 men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.3
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

7 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in SS8

• Third Avenue Health Centre
• Oaklands Surgery
• Ghauri Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Castle Point:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND442 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth290 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases206 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent203 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK197 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

• 
  Canvey Lake · 0.7 km

  Canvey Lake is an 8.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Canvey Island in Essex. It is owned by Castle Point Borough Council and managed by the council together with Canvey Island Town Council.

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  Canvey Island · 0.7 km

  Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and island in the Thames Estuary. It forms part of the Castle Point district of Essex, England. It is separated from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks, but is con…

• Cornelius Vermuyden School · 0.9 km

  Cornelius Vermuyden School is a secondary school with academy status for boys and girls ages 11–16. Located on Canvey Island, Essex, the school is named after the Dutch land engineer Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (1595-1683…

• Furtherwick Park School · 1.0 km

  Furtherwick Park School was a comprehensive co-educational senior school for 11- to 16-year-olds, located on Canvey Island. The school was based in the town centre and opened in 1957 due to the increase of population…

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  Concord Rangers F.C. · 1.1 km

  Concord Rangers Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Canvey Island in Essex, England. The club currently compete in the Isthmian League North Division, the eighth tier of English football, and p…

• Castle View School · 1.1 km

  Castle View School is a comprehensive school for ages 11–16, on Canvey Island in Essex, England, on the old Furtherwick School site in the Canvey town centre. As of 2006, it has some 900 pupils and 200 staff.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)