Upper Farringdon

23°CCloudy

• Today: 23° / 12° · 14% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:27

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026

• Other theft1
• Possession of weapons1
• Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Alton Rural · Hampshire

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

200 reported road collisions (2024)

42 killed or seriously injured · 248 casualties · 15.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

16 food businesses within 2 miles

• 15 rated 4–5 ★ (13 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Medstead and Four Marks (4.4 km)
• 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£446,392 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across East Hampshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,262 average monthly rent▲ 1.2% YoY

• 1 bed £901
• 2 bed £1,179
• 3 bed £1,482

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

11.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.6 times median annual pay (11.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · Asda (12 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (12 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Chawton Park Road (2.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches10
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

125,742 residents in East Hampshire · 244/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 285 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,344 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (24% of 56,500)

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

60 schools · 18,836 pupils

42 primary · 6 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 16 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · East Hampshire

1,436 CQC-registered services

• Care homes482
• GP practices163
• Dentists325
• Homecare agencies362
• Hospitals & hospices35

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hampshire

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

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

142 applications decided

88.7% granted · 126 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Conservative / Independent coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 18
• LD 14
• Grn 1
• Oth 9

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

• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,010 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised · £31,200 avg

e.g. Domestic End of Tenancy Cleaning Specialist, Rental Property Cleaning Specialists, Residential End of Lease Cleaners

Source: Adzuna

£901 median full-time weekly pay

2.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,411 disposable income per head (2024)

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

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 57,309 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 85.6 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

54% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Hampshire:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership392 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership375 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s306 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office267 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test205 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Massey's Folly · 0.2 km

  Massey's Folly, a grade II listed building, was built by Thomas Hacket Massey who served as rector in Farringdon village in Hampshire for 62 years. The folly took thirty years to build as it was entirely built by Mass…

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  Farringdon, Hampshire · 0.3 km

  Farringdon is a civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) south of Alton, on the A32 road, close to a source of the River Wey.

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  Farringdon Halt railway station · 1.0 km

  Farringdon Halt was an intermediate railway station on the Meon Valley line, which ran from Alton to Fareham in Hampshire, England, during the 20th century.

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  Chawton · 2.3 km

  Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The village lies within the South Downs National Park and is famous as the home of Jane Austen for the last eight years of he…

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  Jane Austen's House Museum · 2.4 km

  Jane Austen's House is a small independent museum in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire. It is a writer's house museum occupying the 17th-century house in which novelist Jane Austen spent the last eight ye…

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  East Hampshire (constituency) · 2.5 km

  East Hampshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Damian Hinds of the Conservative Party.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)