Rownhams and Nursling

10°CCloudy

• Today: 10° / 8° · 29% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:03Sunset 16:35

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Southampton Centre, United Kingdom

• 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

196 reported · August 2026▲ 46% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences77
• Anti-social behaviour35
• Vehicle crime21
• Criminal damage & arson20

2 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Coxford, Redbridge and Millbrook · Hampshire

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

488 reported road collisions (2025)

124 killed or seriously injured · 565 casualties · 19.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

257 food businesses within 2 miles

• 205 rated 4–5 ★ (165 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Redbridge (3.0 km)
• 48 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£235,729 average▲ 0.8% YoY

Across Southampton · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,257 average monthly rent▲ 3.4% YoY

• 1 bed £881
• 2 bed £1,114
• 3 bed £1,357

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

6.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.6 times median annual pay (6.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,565 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: 137.8p · AppleGreen (7.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (7.7 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

105 charging locations within ~8 km

• 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Ordnance Survey (1.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools10
• Sports pitches25
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds26

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

248,922 residents in Southampton · 4,990/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 68%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK18,696
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK21,259
• Net moves−2,563

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 76 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,381 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (33% of 111,430)

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

86 schools · 35,028 pupils

53 primary · 12 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 27 of 33 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Southampton

280 CQC-registered services

• Care homes52
• GP practices41
• Dentists55
• Homecare agencies102
• Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Southampton

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

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

158 applications decided

93.7% granted · 148 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Caroline Nokes

Conservative

Romsey and Southampton North

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 24
• Con 6
• LD 8
• Grn 5
• Ref 8

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

• Schools7
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens12
• Restaurants & cafés20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,035 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£724 median full-time weekly pay

4.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,886 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 133,290 certificates

11.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

30% low-carbon electricity

Gas 68% · Wind 16% · Biomass 7% · Nuclear 5%

278 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.4 yrs women · 78 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59 women · 57.6 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.8

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

13 GP surgeries · 9 pharmacies in SO16

• Hampshire Bowel Cancer Screening Centre
• Burgess Road Surgery
• Lordshill Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Romsey and Southampton North:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases462 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks305 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills195 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND181 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately133 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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  Rownhams · 0.3 km

  Rownhams is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, situated just outside the boundaries of the City of Southampton, to the north-west. Rownhams serv…

• Oaklands Community School · 0.5 km

  Oaklands Community School was a mixed comprehensive school in west Southampton, Hampshire, in the south of England. The school served the Lordshill community from 1983 to 2008 for 11 to 16-year-olds. In its later year…

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  Oasis Academy Lord's Hill · 0.5 km

  Oasis Academy Lord's Hill is an academy situated in the city of Southampton, Hampshire and specialises in Arts. Oasis Academy Lord's Hill replaced Millbrook Community School and Oaklands Community School, which both c…

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  Lordshill · 0.6 km

  Lordshill is a neighbourhood in Southampton, England. It is situated in the northern part of the city in the Coxford electoral ward. The area is mostly residential housing with over 4000 mixed council and private dwel…

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  Upton, south Test Valley · 1.0 km

  Upton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, located approximately 1 mile north of Nursling.

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  Hillyfields, Hampshire · 1.1 km

  Hillyfields is a village and suburb of Southampton in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The suburb lies east of the River Test and M271 motorway.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)