Hillway

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 9° · 60% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:33

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

52US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• 5.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

4 reported · August 2026▼ 33% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Other theft1
• Public order1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Wight Rural East · Hampshire

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

233 reported road collisions (2025)

65 killed or seriously injured · 270 casualties · 16.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

63 food businesses within 2 miles

• 54 rated 4–5 ★ (49 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Brading (2.7 km)
• 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£245,670 average▼ 1.1% YoY

Across Isle of Wight · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£951 average monthly rent▲ 7.2% YoY

• 1 bed £663
• 2 bed £872
• 3 bed £1,089

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

9.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.3 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,048 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

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Bembridge Parish Council (1.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Swimming pools7
• Sports pitches13
• Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

140,459 residents in Isle of Wight · 370/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 56%
• 65+: 29%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,726
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,290
• Net moves+436

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

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 56 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,626 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (26% of 73,120)

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

51 schools · 16,601 pupils

36 primary · 6 secondary · 9 other

Ofsted: 16 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (70%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Isle of Wight

159 CQC-registered services

• Care homes62
• GP practices19
• Dentists33
• Homecare agencies39
• Hospitals & hospices5

CQC ratings: 80% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Isle of Wight

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

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

171 applications decided

90.6% granted · 155 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Reform UK (minority)

• Lab 1
• Con 2
• LD 4
• Grn 2
• Ref 19
• Oth 11

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,680 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£662 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,363 disposable income per head (2024)

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

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 78,882 certificates

12.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 83.6 yrs women · 77.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.3 women · 58.6 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

0 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in PO35

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Isle of Wight East:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases493 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK175 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND171 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks155 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately152 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

• Whitecliff Bay and Bembridge Ledges · 0.4 km

  Whitecliff Bay and Bembridge Ledges is a 131.6-hectare (325-acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest that lies around the coastline of the easternmost part of the Isle of Wight from the Bembridge harbour entrance in…

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  Hillway · 0.5 km

  Hillway is a settlement on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.

• Steynewood Battery · 0.5 km

  Steynewood Battery is a battery located between Bembridge and Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight, England. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it in response to a perceived threat of…

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  Bembridge School · 0.6 km

  Bembridge School was a British independent school in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, founded in 1919 by social reformer and Liberal MP John Howard Whitehouse, set in over 100 acres (0.40 km2) on the easternmost tip of…

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  Bembridge Airport · 0.7 km

  Bembridge Airport is an unlicensed aerodrome located about a mile south-west of the village of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England. It is one of four airstrips on the Isle of Wight, and one of two large airfields, the o…

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  Whitecliff Bay · 0.7 km

  Whitecliff Bay is a sandy bay near Foreland which is the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight, England, about two miles south-west of Bembridge and just to the north of Culver Down. The bay has a shoreline of around…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)