Thorpe-le-Soken

12°CLight rain shower

• Today: 13° / 10° · 72% rain
• Tomorrow: 13° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:51Sunset 16:26

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

• 6.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

9 reported · August 2026▼ 44% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour4
• Vehicle crime2
• Drugs1
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Frinton, Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton · Essex

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

236 reported road collisions (2025)

77 killed or seriously injured · 301 casualties · 15.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

28 food businesses within 2 miles

• 21 rated 4–5 ★ (13 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Thorpe-le-Soken (1.0 km)
• 18 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£260,636 average▼ 1.2% YoY

Across Tendring · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,053 average monthly rent▲ 4.1% YoY

• 1 bed £758
• 2 bed £975
• 3 bed £1,186

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

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

2,468 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: 139.8p · AppleGreen (6.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (6.2 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

15 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Lifehouse (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds2

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,125
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,604
• Net moves+3,521

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

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 28 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

20% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

52 schools · 19,335 pupils

39 primary · 6 secondary · 7 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tendring

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 (Thorpe-le-Soken)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 31 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

247 applications decided

83% granted · 205 granted, 42 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Nigel Farage

Reform UK

Clacton

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 7
• Con 12
• LD 4
• Ref 6
• Oth 19

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,600 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

4 jobs advertised · £27,718 avg

e.g. Teaching Assistant (12 Month Fixed Term), Children's Support Worker – Flexible Hours, Therapeutic Pastoral Lead

Source: Adzuna

£734 median full-time weekly pay

4% 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

80% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Gas 20% · Nuclear 16% · Solar 13%

86 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 78.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Essex): 62.4 women · 62.7 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

1 GP surgery · 4 pharmacies in CO16

• Thorpe Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Clacton:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases340 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK259 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth190 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND184 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately152 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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  Thorpe-le-Soken · 0.1 km

  Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located east of Colchester, west of Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea, and north of Clacton-on-Sea. At the 2021 censu…

• Comarques, Thorpe-le-Soken · 0.5 km

  Comarques is an 18th-century country house in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England. It has been attributed to the architect, Sir Robert Taylor. Named after Captain Comarque, a Huguenot refugee who owned the estate in the e…

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  Thorpe Hall (Thorpe-le-Soken) · 0.6 km

  Thorpe Hall was a manor house built in the Georgian style at Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex, England.

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  Thorpe-le-Soken railway station · 1.0 km

  Thorpe-le-Soken railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. It is 65 miles 7 chains (104.7 km) down th…

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  Beaumont Cut · 2.0 km

  Beaumont Cut was a 1-kilometre-long (1,090 yd) canal linking Beaumont Quay, in the parish of Beaumont-cum-Moze, Tendring, Essex, England, with Hamford Water and the North Sea. It was opened in 1832 but fell into disus…

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  Weeleyhall Wood · 2.5 km

  Weeleyhall Wood is a 31 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)