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Well Hill

Well Hill is a town or village in Greater London, England. It has 1 restaurant or café, 7 bus stops, and Knockholt railway station 1.5 km away. There were around 11 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Well Hill area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Bromley area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 329,994 residents at roughly 2,198 people per km².

Council
Bromley
County
Greater London
Constituency
Orpington
Police force
Metropolitan Police
63/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 57th of 294 English council areas — better than 81% of them.

Low crime55
Home affordability10
Affordable rents19
Good schools90
Life expectancy93
Low deprivation84
Employment41
Low council tax94

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: 13° / 9° · 46% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:56Sunset 16:29

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

10US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Greenwich - Fiveways Sidcup Rd A20, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 8.1 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

Crime

7 reported · August 2026▼ 12% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Vehicle crime2
  • Burglary1
  • Other theft1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Crockenhill and Well Hill · Kent

Local policing priorities

  • Nuisance vehicles.
  • Antisocial behaviour - nuisance.

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

Road safety

620 reported road collisions (2025)

121 killed or seriously injured · 726 casualties · 18.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

51 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 39 rated 4–5 ★ (28 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Knockholt (1.5 km)
  • 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Knockholt (1.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£520,253 average▼ 0.5% YoY

Across Bromley · to 2026-08

Detached£1,082,545
Semi-detached£664,931
Terraced£493,107
Flat£306,823

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,684 average monthly rent▲ 2.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,312
  • 2 bed £1,641
  • 3 bed £1,990

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

Affordability

12.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.1 times median annual pay (12.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

3,923 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: 158.9p · BP (6.2 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (6.2 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

25 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: Maidenhead Aquatics Polhill (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches10
  • Golf courses2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

329,994 residents in Bromley · 2,198/km²

  • Under 16: 20%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK23,238
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK22,655
  • Net moves+583

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

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 248 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,140 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (25% of 143,430)

A £1,427
B £1,664
C £1,902
D £2,140
E £2,616
F £3,091
G £3,567
H £4,280

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

Schools

120 schools · 57,429 pupils

76 primary · 19 secondary · 25 other

Ofsted: 40 of 41 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (98%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Hayes SchoolOutstanding
  • Newstead Wood SchoolOutstanding
  • Bullers Wood SchoolGood
  • Bullers Wood School for BoysGood
  • Charles Darwin SchoolGood
  • Darrick Wood SchoolGood
  • Harris Academy OrpingtonGood
  • Langley Park School for GirlsGood
  • Orion Eden ParkGood
  • Orion RavensbourneGood
  • Bishop Justus CofE School
  • Chislehurst School for Girls
  • Harris Academy Beckenham
  • Harris Girls Academy Bromley
  • Kemnal Technology College
  • Langley Park School for Boys
  • Orion Coopers
  • Ravens Wood School
  • St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bromley

Care & health services

323 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes53
  • GP practices60
  • Dentists91
  • Homecare agencies88
  • Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bromley

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

604 applications decided

71.4% granted · 431 granted, 173 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Lab 8
  • Con 35
  • LD 6
  • Ref 6
  • Oth 3

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • Parks & greens1
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

16,305 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£965 median full-time weekly pay

3.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£34,389 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 148,193 certificates

8.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 85.9 yrs women · 82.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 67.7 women · 67.5 men

60% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.5
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Health services

13 GP surgeries · 11 pharmacies in BR6

  • Summercroft Surgery
  • Family Surgery
  • Chelsfield Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Sevenoaks:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Well Hill · 0.0 km

    Well Hill is a small rural hamlet within the civil parish of Shoreham in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It borders east of Orpington & 3.5 miles south of Swanley, adjacent to the Kent border with Greater Lon…

  • Chelsfield · 1.5 km

    Chelsfield is an area in southeast London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley and, prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent. It lies south of Goddington, west of Well Hill, north of Pratt's Bottom and…

  • Knockholt railway station · 1.5 km

    Knockholt railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, located in the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London. It is 16 miles 44 chains (26.6 km) down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between…

  • Badgers Mount · 1.7 km

    Badgers Mount is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, in southeast England. It is 3.6 miles (5.8 km) south east of Orpington and 5.6 miles (9.0 km) north west of Sevenoaks, adjacent to the Ken…

  • Hewitt's Chalk Bank · 1.9 km

    Hewitt's Chalk Bank is a 4-hectare (10-acre) nature reserve north-east of Pratt's Bottom in the London Borough of Bromley. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

  • 1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash · 2.3 km

    On 29 September 1934, an Airspeed Courier of London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Ltd crashed just north of Shoreham, Kent. The aircraft was on a scheduled international passenger flight from Heston Aerodrome west of…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Well Hill?
Well Hill is a town in Greater London, England, in the Bromley local authority.
How deprived is Well Hill?
The Bromley local authority, which includes Well Hill, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.