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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 less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). 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
62/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 66th of 294 English council areas — better than 78% of them.

Low crime55
Home affordability10
Affordable rents18
Good schools90
Life expectancy94
Low deprivation72
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

18°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 25° / 18° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 15° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:18

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

5US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

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

Crime

11 reported · July 2026 83% YoY

  • Burglary3
  • Violence & sexual offences3
  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: Crockenhill and Well Hill · Kent

Local policing priorities

  • Nuisance vehicles.
  • Nuisance antisocial behaviour.

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

Road safety

558 reported road collisions (2024)

83 killed or seriously injured · 655 casualties · 16.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

48 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

£518,235 average 1.4% YoY

Across Bromley · to 2026-06

Detached£1,074,434
Semi-detached£660,212
Terraced£488,485
Flat£308,387

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,681 average monthly rent 2.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,309
  • 2 bed £1,638
  • 3 bed £1,986

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

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · BP (6.2 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Jet (6.5 km)

15 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)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 230 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

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%)

100inspected 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
  • The Ravensbourne SchoolGood
  • 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

321 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes53
  • GP practices59
  • 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

522 applications decided

75.7% granted · 395 granted, 127 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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

16,030 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Sevenoaks:

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

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 less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.