Ventnor

18°COvercast

• Today: 19° / 18° · 50% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 19° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:34Sunset 19:27

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

60 reported · July 2026▲ 9% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences19
• Anti-social behaviour16
• Criminal damage & arson6
• Public order4

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Shanklin and Ventnor · Hampshire

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

229 reported road collisions (2024)

75 killed or seriously injured · 305 casualties · 16.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

84 food businesses within 2 miles

• 69 rated 4–5 ★ (46 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Shanklin (4.8 km)
• 43 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£240,998 average▲ 1.1% YoY

Across Isle of Wight · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£950 average monthly rent▲ 7.6% YoY

• 1 bed £662
• 2 bed £871
• 3 bed £1,087

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 169.9p · Morrisons (6.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Morrisons (6.1 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

12 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Central Car Park (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Swimming pools11
• Sports pitches15
• Golf courses2
• 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)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 80 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

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

158 CQC-registered services

• Care homes61
• GP practices19
• Dentists33
• Homecare agencies39
• Hospitals & hospices5

CQC ratings: 82% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Isle of Wight

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

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

168 applications decided

92.3% granted · 155 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Joe Robertson

Conservative

Isle of Wight East

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK (minority)

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

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens28
• Restaurants & cafés36

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,635 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

67 jobs advertised · £39,572 avg

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Source: Adzuna

£662 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% 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

46% low-carbon electricity

Gas 29% · Imports 26% · Wind 25% · Biomass 15%

144 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

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

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

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases492 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership371 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office251 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s212 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership210 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide

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

• Cove Cottage · 0.1 km

  Cove Cottage is a Grade II listed house in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight in England. The cottage is located on Belgrave Road in the town and is dated 1828; it was listed on 14 July 1976. It was owned by the army office…

• St Catherine's School, Ventnor · 0.2 km

  St Catherine's School, in Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, is an independent non-maintained residential special school for children and young people aged seven to 19 years who have speech, language…

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  St Catherine's Church, Ventnor · 0.2 km

  St Catherine's, Ventnor is a parish church in the Church of England located in Ventnor, Isle of Wight.

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  Ventnor railway station · 0.3 km

  Ventnor railway station was the terminus of the Isle of Wight Railway line from Ryde.

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  Ventnor · 0.3 km

  Ventnor is a seaside resort town and civil parish established in the Victorian era on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England, 11 miles (18 km) from Newport. It is situated south of St Boniface Down, and bui…

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  Ventnor Town Hall · 0.5 km

  Ventnor Town Hall is a historic building in Albert Street in Ventnor, a town on the Isle of Wight, in England. The facade of the building, behind which new flats have been created, is a Grade II listed building.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)