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Ashford Common

Ashford Common is a town in Greater London, England. It has 1 pharmacy, 1 supermarket, 22 restaurants and cafés, 29 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Sunbury, 1.8 km away. In June 2026, there were around 197 recorded street crimes, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ashford Common area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Hounslow area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 288,181 residents at roughly 5,148 people per km².

Council
Hounslow
County
Greater London
Constituency
Feltham and Heston
Police force
Metropolitan Police
46/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 176th of 294 English council areas — better than 40% of them.

Low crime30
Home affordability16
Affordable rents9
Good schools95
Life expectancy73
Low deprivation16
Employment15
Low council tax92

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°COvercast

  • Today: 11° / 9° · 23% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:00Sunset 16:30

9h 30m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

29US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Harlington, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 8.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 6.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

216 reported · August 2026▲ 5% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences70
  • Anti-social behaviour40
  • Public order23
  • Shoplifting18

3 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Feltham West · Metropolitan

Local policing priorities

  • Public Order – High Street Feltham
  • ASB - Feltham High Street

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

Road safety

697 reported road collisions (2025)

146 killed or seriously injured · 827 casualties · 24.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

484 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 400 rated 4–5 ★ (338 top)
  • 13 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Sunbury (1.8 km)
  • 29 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Sunbury (1.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

House prices

£528,051 average▼ 1.5% YoY

Across Hounslow · to 2026-08

Detached£1,047,015
Semi-detached£720,301
Terraced£617,676
Flat£353,291

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,952 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,583
  • 2 bed £1,947
  • 3 bed £2,241

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

Affordability

11.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.3 times median annual pay (10.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,845 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (11.4 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (11.4 km)

16 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

150 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: BP Building MSCP Undercroft Car Park (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Gyms1
  • Sports pitches42
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

288,181 residents in Hounslow · 5,148/km²

  • Under 16: 21%
  • 16–64: 68%
  • 65+: 12%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK23,542
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK29,176
  • Net moves−5,634

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

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 49 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,186 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (37% of 111,270)

A £1,457
B £1,700
C £1,943
D £2,186
E £2,671
F £3,157
G £3,643
H £4,371

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

Schools

89 schools · 46,477 pupils

49 primary · 18 secondary · 22 other

Ofsted: 39 of 39 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Gunnersbury Catholic SchoolOutstanding
  • Lampton AcademyOutstanding
  • St Mark's Catholic SchoolOutstanding
  • The Heathland SchoolOutstanding
  • Bolder AcademyGood
  • Chiswick SchoolGood
  • Cranford Community CollegeGood
  • Heston Community SchoolGood
  • Isleworth and Syon School for BoysGood
  • Springwest AcademyGood
  • The Green School for BoysGood
  • The Green School for GirlsGood
  • Brentford School for Girls
  • Gumley House RC Convent School, FCJ
  • Lift Kingsley
  • Logic Studio School
  • Rivers Academy West London
  • Space Studio West London

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Hounslow

Care & health services

244 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes33
  • GP practices57
  • Dentists65
  • Homecare agencies73
  • Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hounslow

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

357 applications decided

75.1% granted · 268 granted, 89 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Lincoln Jopp

Conservative

Spelthorne

Recent votes:

  • NoBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 8: Capital gains tax (business asset disposal relief)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 32
  • Con 17
  • LD 1
  • Grn 3
  • Ref 8
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools8
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets7
  • Parks & greens17
  • Restaurants & cafés31

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

15,205 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

4 jobs advertised · £35,182 avg

e.g. Production Manager, Machine Operator, Junior IT Support Analyst

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£808 median full-time weekly pay

5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£29,788 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

52% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 119,032 certificates

9.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

32% low-carbon electricity

Gas 67% · Wind 16% · Biomass 7% · Nuclear 6%

271 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.4 women · 59.6 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.6
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.5
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Health services

7 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in TW15

  • Studholme Medical Centre
  • Fordbridge Medical Centre
  • Stanwell Road Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Spelthorne:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Spelthorne Sports F.C. · 1.0 km

    Spelthorne Sports F.C. is a football club based in the borough of Spelthorne. They play in the Combined Counties League Division One.

  • Sunbury-on-Thames · 1.1 km

    Sunbury-on-Thames, known locally as Sunbury, is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, England, 13 mi (21 km) southwest of central London. Sunbury and other surrounding town…

  • Feltham Prison and Young Offender Institution · 1.2 km

    Feltham Young Offenders Institution is a prison for adult males over 18 and juveniles between 15 and 18, occupying 0.184 square kilometres south-west of Feltham in the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, Engla…

  • Radio Feltham · 1.2 km

    Radio Feltham was the first prison radio station in Europe, operating in HM Prison Feltham, a male juvenile prison and Young Offenders Institution in west London that housed up to 800 boys between the ages of 15 and 21.

  • Bedfont Lakes Country Park · 1.7 km

    Bedfont Lakes Country Park is a 72.5-hectare Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Bedfont in the London Borough of Hounslow.

  • Queen Mary Reservoir · 1.8 km

    The Queen Mary Reservoir is one of the largest of London's reservoirs supplying fresh water to London and parts of surrounding counties, and is located in the Borough of Spelthorne in Surrey. The reservoir covers 707…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Ashford Common?
Ashford Common is a town in Greater London, England, in the Hounslow local authority.
How deprived is Ashford Common?
The Hounslow local authority, which includes Ashford Common, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.