Whyteleafe

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 10° / 7° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:29

9h 30m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

61US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wandsworth - Tooting High Street, United Kingdom

• 8.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 6.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

68 reported · August 2026▲ 26% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences16
• Anti-social behaviour14
• Shoplifting14
• Vehicle crime6

4 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Caterham on the Hill, Chaldon, Whyteleafe & Portley · Surrey

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

937 reported road collisions (2025)

150 killed or seriously injured · 1,067 casualties · 24 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

298 food businesses within 2 miles

• 261 rated 4–5 ★ (222 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Whyteleafe (0.3 km)
• 29 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£396,718 average▼ 1.5% YoY

Across Croydon · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,582 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £1,265
• 2 bed £1,573
• 3 bed £1,858

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

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

3,567 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: 152.9p · Esso (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Esso (10.5 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

127 charging locations within ~8 km

• 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Whyteleafe Railway Station (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches22
• Playgrounds2

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK32,080
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK36,566
• Net moves−4,486

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 105 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

158 schools · 63,165 pupils

87 primary · 23 secondary · 48 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Croydon

487 CQC-registered services

• Care homes129
• GP practices72
• Dentists89
• Homecare agencies155
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Croydon

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

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

418 applications decided

74.6% granted · 312 granted, 106 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Claire Coutinho

Conservative

East Surrey

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority · directly-elected mayor

• Lab 30
• Con 28
• LD 2
• Grn 8
• Ref 2

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

• Schools11
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

16,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

9 jobs advertised · £32,763 avg

e.g. Centre Manager, Construction Administration Manager, CRM & Customer Manager

Source: Adzuna

£856 median full-time weekly pay

6.4% 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

41% low-carbon electricity

Gas 59% · Wind 31% · Nuclear 6% · Biomass 4%

235 gCO₂/kWh · very 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

4 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in CR3

• Caterham Valley Medical Practice
• Caterham Dene Rac
• Cesp Glaucoma (Canterbury)

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Surrey:

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death695 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND273 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Criminalise unauthorised development & ban retrospective permission238 local signatures · 7,329 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases237 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks224 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

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  Whyteleafe · 0.1 km

  Whyteleafe is a village in the district of Tandridge, Surrey, England, with a few streets falling inside the London Borough of Croydon. The village, in a dry valley of the North Downs, has three railway stations. Neig…

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  Whyteleafe railway station · 0.3 km

  Whyteleafe railway station serves the village of Whyteleafe right on the border of Greater London and Surrey, England. It is 17 miles 58 chains (28.5 km) from Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are o…

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  Upper Warlingham railway station · 0.4 km

  Upper Warlingham railway station is on the Oxted line serving Warlingham and Whyteleafe in Surrey, England. It is in London fare zone 6, 15 miles 33 chains from London Bridge, although off peak trains run to and from…

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  Sutton Common Rovers F.C. · 0.5 km

  Sutton Common Rovers Football Club is a semi-professional football club currently competing in the Combined Counties League Premier Division South. Originally based in sutton common, the club moved southwest to Leathe…

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  Whyteleafe F.C. · 0.5 km

  Whyteleafe Football Club was an English football club based in Whyteleafe, Surrey. The club was established in 1946 and joined the Athenian League in 1981. The club was an FA Chartered Standard club affiliated to the…

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  AFC Whyteleafe · 0.5 km

  AFC Whyteleafe is an English football club established in 2021 by Chairman Kelly Waters. From the 2026/27 season the club will compete in the Isthmian League Premier Division, having won the South East Division play-o…

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