Sawbridgeworth

16°CLight drizzle

• Today: 22° / 14° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 24° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:25

13h 0m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Waltham Forest Dawlish Rd, United Kingdom

51 reported · July 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences17
• Anti-social behaviour11
• Vehicle crime9
• Criminal damage & arson5

3 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Bishops Stortford and Sawbridgeworth · Hertfordshire

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

302 reported road collisions (2024)

76 killed or seriously injured · 371 casualties · 22.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

95 food businesses within 2 miles

• 75 rated 4–5 ★ (57 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Sawbridgeworth (0.8 km)
• 12 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£536,765 average▲ 4.9% YoY

Across Epping Forest · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,843 average monthly rent▲ 5.7% YoY

• 1 bed £1,229
• 2 bed £1,583
• 3 bed £1,939

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

12.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.4 times median annual pay (13.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (9.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 140.8p · AppleGreen (9.8 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 180 kW
• Nearest: CMC Harlow-Hyundai (3.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres5
• Swimming pools13
• Sports pitches26
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

134,979 residents in Epping Forest · 398/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 200 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,277 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (24% of 58,610)

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

54 schools · 19,253 pupils

35 primary · 7 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 17 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

45inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Epping Forest

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

• Within the Green Belt
• 153 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

277 applications decided

70.4% granted · 195 granted, 82 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Josh Dean

Labour

Hertford and Stortford

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 1
• Con 19
• LD 6
• Ref 12
• Oth 16

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,040 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

79 jobs advertised · £34,467 avg

e.g. Mobile Mechanic, Mobile Vehicle Technician - Harlow, Make An Uber Account To Drive - Start Earning With The Uber App

Source: Adzuna

£883 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£36,421 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 58,461 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

81% low-carbon electricity

Wind 55% · Gas 18% · Nuclear 16% · Biomass 10%

83 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.2 yrs women · 80.8 yrs men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• 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 Hertford and Stortford:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership433 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s432 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test427 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office333 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership319 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Sawbridgeworth · 0.3 km

  Sawbridgeworth is a town and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 10 miles (16 km) east of the county town of Hertford, in between the towns of Bishop's Stortford to the n…

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  Sawbridgeworth Town F.C. · 0.3 km

  Sawbridgeworth Town Football Club is an English football club based in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. The club are currently members of the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division and play at Crofters End.

• The Leventhorpe School · 0.5 km

  Leventhorpe School is a mixed, 11-19 secondary school and sixth form in the town of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. The school became an academy in August 2011, and is part of the Rivers Multi-Academy Trust.

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  Sawbridgeworth railway station · 0.7 km

  Sawbridgeworth railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the town of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is 26 miles 57 chains (43.0 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situate…

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  Sawbridgeworth Marsh · 1.0 km

  Sawbridgeworth Marsh is a 6.3-hectare (16-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, apart from a small area in the north which is in Essex. It is managed by the…

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  Lower Sheering · 1.1 km

  Lower Sheering is a residential dormitory area based on Sheering Lower Road, in the civil parish of Sheering, and the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It conjoins the Hertfordshire town of Sawbridgeworth at t…

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