Seawick

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 21° / 17° · 52% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:24Sunset 19:19

12h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

55 reported · July 2026▼ 15% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences19
• Anti-social behaviour9
• Criminal damage & arson8
• Vehicle crime5

3 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Brightlingsea and St Osyth · 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)

67 food businesses within 2 miles

• 40 rated 4–5 ★ (31 top)
• 11 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Clacton-on-Sea (5.1 km)
• 3 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 (10.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (10.3 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

13 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Clacton Trade And Leisure Park (4.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds4

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
• 3 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)

• Restaurants & cafés7

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 Clacton:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office513 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test347 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases338 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership327 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance230 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

• 
  Jaywick Martello Tower · 0.7 km

  Jaywick Martello Tower is a renovated Martello tower at Jaywick, 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south-west of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. It now functions as an arts, heritage and community venue. It is a Grade II listed building and…

• Jaywick Sands railway station · 1.7 km

  Jaywick Sands railway station was the lower terminus of the 18-inch gauge Jaywick Miniature Railway in Essex, UK.

• Crossways railway station · 2.0 km

  Crossways railway station was the upper terminus of the short-lived Jaywick Miniature Railway in Essex, England.

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  Jaywick · 2.2 km

  Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Clacton-on-Sea. It lies on the North Sea coast of England, 60 miles (97 km) from London and 17 miles (27 km) from Colches…

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  Colne Point · 2.3 km

  Colne Point is a 276.4-hectare (683-acre) nature reserve south-west of St Osyth in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. It is part of the Colne Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest, national nature…

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  Lee-over-Sands · 2.4 km

  Lee-over-Sands is a small coastal hamlet in the civil parish of St Osyth, in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located close to the mouth of the River Colne into the North Sea.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)