Chadwell St Mary

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• Today: 12° / 9° · 14% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:26

9h 29m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

57US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stanford-le-Hope Roadside, United Kingdom

• 8.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 6.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

172 reported · August 2026▲ 16% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences62
• Anti-social behaviour39
• Vehicle crime21
• Criminal damage & arson15

6 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Chadwell St Mary and Tilbury · Essex

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

260 reported road collisions (2025)

78 killed or seriously injured · 326 casualties · 14.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

297 food businesses within 2 miles

• 230 rated 4–5 ★ (153 top)
• 11 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Tilbury Town (2.2 km)
• 29 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£319,969 average▼ 1.4% YoY

Across Thurrock · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,380 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £941
• 2 bed £1,214
• 3 bed £1,474

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

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

1,858 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: 154.9p · Esso (8.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (8.3 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

47 charging locations within ~8 km

• 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Crown Road (2.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches28
• Playgrounds9

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,751
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK11,673
• Net moves−922

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 114 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

56 inspected 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: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Thurrock

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

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

170 applications decided

77.6% granted · 132 granted, 38 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

James McMurdock

Independent

South Basildon and East Thurrock

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 4
• Con 2
• Ref 43

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

• Schools14
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,245 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

4 jobs advertised · £46,589 avg

e.g. Registered Manager, Science ECT, Tesco Colleague - Chadwell St Mary Express

Source: Adzuna

£853 median full-time weekly pay

4.4% 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

69% low-carbon electricity

Wind 44% · Gas 31% · Nuclear 16% · Biomass 8%

130 gCO₂/kWh · moderate 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 RM16

• Chafford Hundred Medical Centre
• Orsett Surgery
• Stifford Clays Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Basildon and East Thurrock:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND278 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth244 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK173 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases161 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence129 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide

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

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  St Mary's Church, Chadwell St Mary · 0.4 km

  The Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in Chadwell St Mary, Thurrock, Essex. The church is a Grade I listed building. Together with Emmanuel Church, it forms the Parish of Chadwell St Mary in the D…

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  Chadwell St Mary · 0.5 km

  Chadwell St Mary is an area of the unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex, England. It lies 2 miles (3 km) east of the centre of Grays, its post town, and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Tilbury. At the 2021 census the Chadw…

• Thames Park Secondary School · 0.6 km

  Thames Park Secondary School is a co-operative, comprehensive and coeducational secondary free school in Grays, Essex, England. It opened in September 2020 as a member of the Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust (OCAT)…

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  The Gateway Academy, Essex · 0.6 km

  The Gateway Academy, formerly The Gateway Community College, is a coeducational academy secondary school in Grays, Essex, England. It became an academy in 2006 under the sponsorship of the Ormiston Trust after Thurroc…

• Thurrock and Basildon College · 0.7 km

  Thurrock and Basildon College was a further education college in Grays, Essex, England and Basildon, Essex, England. It was formed by the merger of Thurrock Technical College and Basildon College. The college merged w…

• Terrel's Heath · 1.0 km

  Terrel's Heath is, in spite of its name, an area of woodland in Chadwell St Mary named on the 1938 six-inch Ordnance Survey map.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)