Chipstead and Woodmansterne

18°CMist

• Today: 20° / 16° · 91% rain
• Tomorrow: 24° / 16° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:22

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wandsworth - Lavender Hill (Clapham Jct), United Kingdom

62 reported · July 2026▲ 9% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences25
• Anti-social behaviour12
• Public order6
• Burglary4

6 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Coulsdon Town · Metropolitan

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

933 reported road collisions (2024)

153 killed or seriously injured · 1,047 casualties · 23.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

183 food businesses within 2 miles

• 157 rated 4–5 ★ (118 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Chipstead (1.0 km)
• 9 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,581 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £1,264
• 2 bed £1,572
• 3 bed £1,856

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

10.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.6 times median annual pay (10.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · Esso (7.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 179.7p · Asda (7.8 km)

30 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 30 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Vincent Road (1.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches21
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

390,719 residents in Croydon · 4,516/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 102 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,600 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (31% of 168,250)

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

159 schools · 63,219 pupils

87 primary · 23 secondary · 49 other

Ofsted: 47 of 56 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

127inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Croydon

486 CQC-registered services

• Care homes129
• GP practices73
• Dentists89
• Homecare agencies155
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Croydon

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

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

387 applications decided

71.6% granted · 277 granted, 110 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Rebecca Paul

Conservative

Reigate

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority · directly-elected mayor

• Lab 30
• Con 28
• LD 2
• Grn 7
• Ref 2
• Oth 1

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

• Schools3
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens15
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

16,200 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£856 median full-time weekly pay

6.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,407 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 182,880 certificates

10.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

10% low-carbon electricity

Gas 53% · Imports 38% · Wind 6% · Nuclear 2%

229 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 80.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 67.5 women · 66.7 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.0
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Reigate:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership363 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s346 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office325 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test309 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership255 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Cane Hill Hospital · 0.8 km

  Cane Hill Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. The hospital motto was "Aversos compono animos". The hospital was built in the 1880s, but from the 1960s its use was starting…

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  Chipstead railway station · 1.0 km

  Chipstead railway station serves the village of Chipstead in Surrey. It is a late-Victorian station on the Tattenham Corner Line and was opened in 1897. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southern.…

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  Chipstead, Surrey · 1.1 km

  Chipstead is a predominantly commuter village in the Reigate and Banstead district, in north-east Surrey, England, that has been a small ecclesiastical parish since the Domesday Survey of 1086. Its rolling landscape m…

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  Farthing Downs · 1.2 km

  Farthing Downs is an open space in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. Together with Eight Acres Common and New Hill to the south-east, it is owned and managed by the Corporation of London. Farthing Downs and E…

• Coulsdon Town F.C. · 1.3 km

  Coulsdon Town Football Club was a football club based in Coulsdon, Greater London, England.

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  Woodmansterne railway station · 1.4 km

  Woodmansterne railway station is a railway station which primarily serves the western areas of Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon, England. Situated on the Tattenham Corner line, it is 17 miles 40 chains (28.2…

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