Aveley

9°CMist

• Today: 14° / 7° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 13° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:52Sunset 16:32

9h 40m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Dartford - St Clements 2, United Kingdom

• 8.2 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 6.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

87 reported · August 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences35
• Anti-social behaviour10
• Vehicle crime10
• Criminal damage & arson7

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Aveley and Ockendon · Essex

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

500 reported road collisions (2025)

72 killed or seriously injured · 606 casualties · 19.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

266 food businesses within 2 miles

• 232 rated 4–5 ★ (198 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Purfleet (2.3 km)
• 29 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£444,572 average▲ 1.1% YoY

Across Havering · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,565 average monthly rent▲ 1.5% YoY

• 1 bed £1,217
• 2 bed £1,542
• 3 bed £1,847

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

11.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.0 times median annual pay (12.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,886 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: 157.9p · BP (9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (9 km)

16 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

86 charging locations within ~8 km

• 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Moto Thurrock M25 Services Nomadpower (1.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches30
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Update on FCC Waste Management Strike Action - 30 October 2026· 30 Oct 2026
• Council Leader responds to Government Budget· 29 Oct 2026
• Remembrance in Havering· 28 Oct 2026
• Havering welcomes approval of SEND Reform Plan· 28 Oct 2026
• Update on proposed FCC Waste Management Strike Action - 23 October 2026· 23 Oct 2026

Source: Havering Council

262,052 residents in Havering · 2,332/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK21,002
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK19,285
• Net moves+1,717

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 173 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,425 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (33% of 108,670)

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

92 schools · 44,047 pupils

59 primary · 18 secondary · 15 other

Ofsted: 29 of 30 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (97%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Havering

304 CQC-registered services

• Care homes60
• GP practices54
• Dentists50
• Homecare agencies123
• Hospitals & hospices2

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Havering

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

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

369 applications decided

81.8% granted · 302 granted, 67 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Jen Craft

Labour

Thurrock

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 2
• Ref 39
• Oth 14

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens9
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,320 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

36 jobs advertised · £40,313 avg

e.g. EYFS Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant, Gold Supervisor with EUSR 1&2

Source: Adzuna

£896 median full-time weekly pay

4.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,374 disposable income per head (2024)

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

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 106,362 certificates

8.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

39% low-carbon electricity

Gas 55% · Nuclear 27% · Biomass 10% · Imports 6%

250 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 80.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63.3 women · 63.8 men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

6 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in RM15

• Aveley Medical Centre
• Peartree Surgery & West Horndon Surgery
• Sancta Maria Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Thurrock:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND240 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth193 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence142 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK119 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately80 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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  Aveley · 0.2 km

  Aveley is a town in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It lies 16 miles (26 km) east of Charing Cross. It is inside the M25 motorway which encircles London, but lies just outside the Greater London boundary. A…

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  Old Ship, Aveley · 0.5 km

  The Old Ship is a public house in Aveley, Essex, in England. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

• Ormiston Park Academy · 0.5 km

  Park Academy, formerly the Ormiston Park Academy and Belhus Chase Specialist Humanities College, is now a secondary school and academy located in Aveley, Essex, England. The school was reformed as an academy in 2009 u…

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  Brimsdown F.C. · 0.8 km

  Brimsdown Football Club is a football club based in Brimsdown in the London Borough of Enfield, England. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Division One South and play at Aveley's Parkside ground.

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  Grays Athletic F.C. · 0.8 km

  Grays Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Grays, Essex, England. It is currently a member of the Isthmian League North Division. The team play at Chadfields in nearby Tilbury.

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  Aveley F.C. · 0.8 km

  Aveley Football Club are a professional football club based in Aveley, Essex, England. They are currently members of the Isthmian League Premier Division and play at Parkside.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)