Little Burstead

9°CCloudy

• Today: 12° / 9° · 61% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:55Sunset 16:28

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

• 7.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

5 reported · August 2026▲ 150% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Burglary1
• Public order1
• Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Billericay · Essex

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

252 reported road collisions (2025)

77 killed or seriously injured · 305 casualties · 13.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

221 food businesses within 2 miles

• 179 rated 4–5 ★ (153 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Billericay (2.9 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£366,218 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across Basildon · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,424 average monthly rent▲ 5.4% YoY

• 1 bed £983
• 2 bed £1,269
• 3 bed £1,508

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

9.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.7 times median annual pay (10.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,362 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 (5.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (5.2 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

28 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Car Park D Ford Dunton Technical Centre (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools30
• Sports pitches5
• Golf courses2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

187,571 residents in Basildon · 1,705/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,278
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK11,535
• Net moves−257

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 120 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,327 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (31% of 80,090)

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

59 schools · 30,397 pupils

46 primary · 9 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 20 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Basildon

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

• In a conservation area (Little Burstead)
• Within the Green Belt
• 16 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

213 applications decided

89.7% granted · 191 granted, 22 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative

Basildon and Billericay

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 12
• Con 12
• Ref 11
• Oth 7

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,870 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

25 jobs advertised · £32,223 avg

e.g. Assistant Manager, Senior Service Desk Analyst, Conveyancer

Source: Adzuna

£806 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,031 disposable income per head (2024)

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

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 78,520 certificates

7.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

83% low-carbon electricity

Wind 55% · Nuclear 19% · Gas 16% · Biomass 10%

73 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 80 yrs men

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

75% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

11 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in CM12

• Western Road Surgery
• The New Surgery
• The Billericay Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Basildon and Billericay:

• Remove the grey belt planning rules361 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth267 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND253 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases207 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK145 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

• Billericay Rural District · 0.6 km

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  Little Burstead · 0.6 km

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  Great Burstead and South Green · 1.3 km

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• Burstead Grange · 1.8 km

  Burstead Grange was a Cistercian house in Essex, England.

• Harris Academy Billericay · 1.9 km

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