St Ippolyts

18°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 17° · 74% rain
• Tomorrow: 24° / 15° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:22

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

7 reported · July 2026▼ 30% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Criminal damage & arson2
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Public order1

Neighbourhood team: Hitchin Rural · Hertfordshire

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

200 reported road collisions (2024)

44 killed or seriously injured · 281 casualties · 15 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

265 food businesses within 2 miles

• 224 rated 4–5 ★ (186 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Hitchin (3.0 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£422,616 average▲ 7.8% YoY

Across North Hertfordshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,429 average monthly rent▲ 5% YoY

• 1 bed £1,020
• 2 bed £1,279
• 3 bed £1,569

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

10.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.0 times median annual pay (9.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 159.9p · Esso (5.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.7p · Asda (4.7 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

47 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 360 kW
• Nearest: BP Oakfield SF Connect (2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools10
• Sports pitches30
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

133,210 residents in North Hertfordshire · 355/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 269 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,449 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (34% of 60,040)

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

69 schools · 19,871 pupils

53 primary · 6 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 26 of 30 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

65inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · North Hertfordshire

1,172 CQC-registered services

• Care homes257
• GP practices170
• Dentists295
• Homecare agencies329
• Hospitals & hospices34

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hertfordshire

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

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

255 applications decided

88.6% granted · 226 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour (minority)

• Lab 23
• Con 7
• LD 20
• Oth 1

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

• Schools3
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,995 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

49 jobs advertised · £39,519 avg

e.g. Mobile Mechanic, Mobile Vehicle Technician - Luton, Mobile Vehicle Technician - Stevenage

Source: Adzuna

£983 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£31,048 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: C · 66,549 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 80.2 yrs men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hitchin:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases474 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership416 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test386 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s328 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership319 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  St Ippolyts · 0.6 km

  St Ippolyts is a village and civil parish on the southern edge of Hitchin in the North Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. As well as the village itself, the parish includes the hamlet of…

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  Wymondley College · 0.8 km

  Wymondley College was a dissenting academy at Wymondley House in Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire, England. Intended for the education of future nonconformist ministers of religion, it was in operation from 1799 to 183…

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  Wymondley House · 0.8 km

  Wymondley House is a building in the North Hertfordshire village of Little Wymondley that was built in 1724. At one time the home of a dissenting academy called Wymondley College, it was classified as a Grade II* list…

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  Wymondley · 1.0 km

  Wymondley is a civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It includes the villages of Little Wymondley and Great Wymondley and a number of smaller hamlets, including Redcoats Green, To…

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  Little Wymondley · 1.2 km

  Little Wymondley is a village in the parish of Wymondley, in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Hitchin, its post town, and a similar distance north-west o…

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  Gosmore · 1.3 km

  Gosmore is a hamlet in the parish of St Ippolyts near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. One interesting feature is Bunyan's Dell, a natural amphitheatre deep inside Wain Wood where the author of The Pilgrim's Progres…

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