Kingswood and Fishponds

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 21° / 11° · 24% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 19:33

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

325 reported · July 2026▲ 14% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences121
• Anti-social behaviour58
• Criminal damage & arson29
• Public order24

Neighbourhood team: Staple Hill and New Cheltenham · Avon And Somerset

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

321 reported road collisions (2024)

45 killed or seriously injured · 424 casualties · 11.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 413 rated 4–5 ★ (349 top)
• 17 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Oldland Common (3.3 km)
• 59 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£340,300 average▲ 2.3% YoY

Across South Gloucestershire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,456 average monthly rent▲ 4.5% YoY

• 1 bed £994
• 2 bed £1,267
• 3 bed £1,547

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 (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (9.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (9.1 km)

35 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

108 charging locations within ~8 km

• 28 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Revive_NSC (0.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms4
• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches43
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds19

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

290,424 residents in South Gloucestershire · 584/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 267 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,551 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (29% of 129,040)

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

125 schools · 42,025 pupils

93 primary · 14 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 51 of 57 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

117inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Gloucestershire

282 CQC-registered services

• Care homes82
• GP practices38
• Dentists42
• Homecare agencies83
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · South Gloucestershire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 37 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

379 applications decided

88.7% granted · 336 granted, 43 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Damien Egan

Labour

Bristol North East

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Labour coalition

• Lab 14
• Con 23
• LD 18
• Grn 1
• Oth 5

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

• Schools15
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens36
• Restaurants & cafés43

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,590 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£793 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,750 disposable income per head (2024)

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

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 124,171 certificates

7.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

95% low-carbon electricity

Wind 64% · Nuclear 21% · Solar 7% · Biomass 3%

14 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 64 women · 64.2 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bristol North East:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership423 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership334 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s270 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test216 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance216 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

• Soundwell · 1.0 km

  Soundwell, Bristol is a suburb of Bristol, England in the South Gloucestershire District. It is situated between Kingswood and Staple Hill.

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  Kingswood Borough · 1.0 km

  Kingswood was, from 1974 to 1996, a non-metropolitan district of the county of Avon, England.

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  Kingswood (constituency) · 1.0 km

  Kingswood was a borough constituency for the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years by the first-past-the-post electoral system.

• King's Oak Academy · 1.0 km

  King's Oak Academy, formerly Kingsfield School and Kingswood Grammar School, is a Mathematics and Computing College located in Kingswood in Bristol, England. The education authority Ofsted rated it as "good" in 2018.

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  Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood · 1.1 km

  Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood, is an Anglican parish church in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, England. It has been designated as a grade II* listed building.

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  Mangotsfield railway station · 1.1 km

  Mangotsfield railway station was a railway station on the Midland Railway route between Bristol and Birmingham, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-east of Bristol Temple Meads and 82 miles (132 km) from Birmingham New Street, ser…

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