Kingston upon Thames

19°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 18° · 85% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

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

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Teddington Bushy Park, United Kingdom

700 reported · July 2026▼ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences186
• Anti-social behaviour166
• Shoplifting130
• Public order43

90 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Kingston Town · Metropolitan

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

289 reported road collisions (2024)

62 killed or seriously injured · 341 casualties · 17.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 415 rated 4–5 ★ (342 top)
• 14 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Kingston (0.3 km)
• 90 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£594,498 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Kingston upon Thames · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,807 average monthly rent▼ 1.2% YoY

• 1 bed £1,376
• 2 bed £1,751
• 3 bed £2,148

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

12.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.7 times median annual pay (12.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · BP (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (11.8 km)

47 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Canbury Park Road (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres11
• Gyms5
• Swimming pools13
• Sports pitches71
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

168,064 residents in Kingston upon Thames · 4,512/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 270 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,609 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (30% of 70,420)

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

64 schools · 30,040 pupils

34 primary · 11 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 21 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

51inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Kingston upon Thames

203 CQC-registered services

• Care homes44
• GP practices38
• Dentists61
• Homecare agencies47
• Hospitals & hospices4

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kingston upon Thames

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

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

277 applications decided

72.9% granted · 202 granted, 75 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Ed Davey

Liberal Democrat

Kingston and Surbiton

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 1
• LD 44
• Oth 3

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

• Schools25
• GPs & clinics8
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets9
• Parks & greens62
• Restaurants & cafés154

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,385 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1,489 jobs advertised · £38,101 avg

e.g. Head Chef, Head of Health and Safety, Customer Sales Manager

Source: Adzuna

£953 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£35,290 disposable income per head (2024)

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

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 86,340 certificates

8.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

17% low-carbon electricity

Imports 67% · Wind 16% · Gas 16% · Nuclear 1%

123 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86.6 yrs women · 82.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 67 women · 66.9 men

55% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Kingston and Surbiton:

• Ensure new sewage treatment infrastructure meets higher standards as in the EU2,577 local signatures · 35,924 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership400 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership351 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s343 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases285 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Tiffin School · 0.2 km

  Tiffin School is a boys' grammar school in Kingston upon Thames, England. It has specialist status in both the performing arts and languages. The school moved from voluntary aided status to become an Academy School on…

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  Kingston upon Thames (parish) · 0.2 km

  Kingston upon Thames was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey, England. By 1839 it contained these chapelries, curacies or ecclesiastical parishes which eventually became civil parishes in their own right:

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  Hundred of Kingston · 0.2 km

  The Hundred of Kingston or Kingston Hundred was an ancient hundred in the north east of the county of Surrey, England. Its area has been mostly absorbed by the growth of London and its name currently refers to both th…

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  Outside the Box Comedy Club · 0.2 km

  Outside the Box is a comedy club located in the backroom of The Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston-upon-Thames. It was opened in November 2006 by comedian Maff Brown.

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  Kingston Grammar School · 0.3 km

  Kingston Grammar School is a private co-educational day school in Kingston upon Thames, England. The school was founded by royal charter in 1561 but can trace its roots back to at least the 13th century. It is a regis…

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  Kingston railway station (England) · 0.3 km

  Kingston railway station is in Kingston upon Thames in south-west London. It is 12 miles 9 chains (19.5 km) down the line from London Waterloo. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railw…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)