Harlow

17°CLight rain shower

• Today: 21° / 17° · 80% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:21

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

3US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: carbon monoxide

Source: WAQI · Haringey Roadside, United Kingdom

437 reported · July 2026▲ 11% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences185
• Shoplifting58
• Anti-social behaviour38
• Criminal damage & arson29

37 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Netteswell · Essex

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

115 reported road collisions (2024)

24 killed or seriously injured · 142 casualties · 12.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

479 food businesses within 2 miles

• 401 rated 4–5 ★ (338 top)
• 9 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Harlow Town (1.3 km)
• 50 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£313,338 average▲ 1.7% YoY

Across Harlow · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,518 average monthly rent▲ 4.2% YoY

• 1 bed £1,021
• 2 bed £1,325
• 3 bed £1,570

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

8.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.8 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (5.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 140.8p · AppleGreen (5.3 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

17 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: The Stow Car Park, Minchen Road (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres8
• Gyms3
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches28
• Playgrounds17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

93,328 residents in Harlow · 3,056/km²

• Under 16: 22%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 15%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 100 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,299 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (48% of 40,520)

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

42 schools · 16,316 pupils

30 primary · 7 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 13 of 15 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Harlow

1,571 CQC-registered services

• Care homes407
• GP practices230
• Dentists309
• Homecare agencies475
• Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 17 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Essex

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

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

60 applications decided

90% granted · 54 granted, 6 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Chris Vince

Labour (Co-op)

Harlow

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 10
• Con 22
• Ref 1

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

• Schools15
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets7
• Parks & greens39
• Restaurants & cafés48

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,075 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

772 jobs advertised · £38,844 avg

e.g. Apprentice Educator, Mobile Vehicle Technician - Harlow, Mobile Mechanic

Source: Adzuna

£728 median full-time weekly pay

4.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,350 disposable income per head (2024)

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

52% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 51,072 certificates

8.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

67% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 38% · Wind 27% · Gas 27% · Imports 7%

113 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 78.9 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2021-22

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Harlow:

• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test461 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office392 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s391 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership379 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth308 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  Our Lady of Fatima Church, Harlow · 0.1 km

  Our Lady of Fatima's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Harlow, Essex, England. It was designed between 1953 and 1954 by Gerard Goalen and was one of the earliest churches in England where the design was infl…

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  Burnt Mill Academy · 0.2 km

  Burnt Mill Academy is a secondary school academy and specialist performing arts college situated on First Avenue in Harlow, Essex, England. The school originally opened in May 1962 as Burnt Mill Comprehensive School,…

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  Contrapuntal Forms (Hepworth) · 0.3 km

  Contrapuntal Forms is a stone sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, one of her first public commissions, made in 1950–51 for the Festival of Britain and installed outside the Dome of Discovery on South Bank, London. It was o…

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  Harlow Town Park · 0.7 km

  Harlow Town Park is a 164-acre (66 ha) public park in Harlow, Essex, England. The park is one of the largest urban parks in Britain. It includes multiple gardens, a petting zoo named the Pets' Corner, a bandstand, and…

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  Netteswell · 0.8 km

  Netteswell is a suburb of Harlow in Essex, England. Until the mid-20th century, Netteswell was a rural parish with a number of small settlements and scattered houses, with the two main settlements being Netteswell Cro…

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  The Lawn (Harlow) · 1.0 km

  The Lawn is a mid-twentieth-century low-rise building located on the outskirts of Old Harlow, to the east of the town of Harlow, Essex, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)