Lawford

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 23° / 17° · 80% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 16° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:25Sunset 19:17

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

9 reported · July 2026▼ 10% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences6
• Vehicle crime2
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Harwich and Manningtree · Essex

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

199 reported road collisions (2024)

54 killed or seriously injured · 270 casualties · 13.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

55 food businesses within 2 miles

• 46 rated 4–5 ★ (38 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Manningtree (1.9 km)
• 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£261,717 average▲ 2.6% YoY

Across Tendring · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,051 average monthly rent▲ 4.6% YoY

• 1 bed £757
• 2 bed £972
• 3 bed £1,182

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

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 139.8p · AppleGreen (7.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (7.8 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

15 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: East of England Co-Op Manningtree (2.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches9
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

148,291 residents in Tendring · 441/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 32 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

18% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,270 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (29% of 75,690)

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

51 schools · 19,335 pupils

39 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 24 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

47inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tendring

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
• 26 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

199 applications decided

83.9% granted · 167 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Independent / Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 7
• Con 13
• LD 4
• Ref 7
• Oth 17

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,505 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£734 median full-time weekly pay

4.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,182 disposable income per head (2024)

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

36% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 77,907 certificates

12.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 78.7 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Harwich and North Essex:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership387 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office374 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test356 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership323 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s256 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Lawford · 1.1 km

  Lawford is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is approximately 6 miles (10 km) northeast from the centre of Colchester and west of, and contiguous with, Manningtr…

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  Veolia Water East · 1.2 km

  Veolia Water East, formerly known as Tendring Hundred Water Services, and originally the Tendring Hundred Waterworks Company, was a privately owned company supplying water in the eastern United Kingdom. It supplied wa…

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  St Mary's Church, Lawford · 1.2 km

  St Mary's Church stands on Church Hill, Lawford, Essex, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Harwich, the archdeaconry of Colchester, and the diocese of Chelmsford. The church is recorded…

• Manningtree High School · 1.7 km

  Manningtree High School is a secondary school with academy status in Lawford, Manningtree, Essex, England. The school has specialist status in Science. The headteacher is Mr Benjamin Briggs. The school have recently a…

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  Harwich and North Essex · 1.7 km

  Harwich and North Essex is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Bernard Jenkin of the Conservative Party since its creation in 2010. Jenkin had previously been MP for the predeces…

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  Manningtree railway station · 1.9 km

  Manningtree railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the town of Manningtree, Essex. It is 59 miles 35 chains (95.66 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and i…

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