Ashford (Ashford)

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 10° / 6° · 14% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:56Sunset 16:24

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

• 6.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

313 reported · August 2026▲ 25% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour105
• Violence & sexual offences100
• Criminal damage & arson26
• Shoplifting19

19 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Beaver · Kent

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

256 reported road collisions (2025)

78 killed or seriously injured · 356 casualties · 19.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

372 food businesses within 2 miles

• 329 rated 4–5 ★ (297 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Ashford International (1.7 km)
• 56 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£340,991 average▼ 0.8% YoY

Across Ashford · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,248 average monthly rent▲ 3.1% YoY

• 1 bed £894
• 2 bed £1,143
• 3 bed £1,407

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

10.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.2 times median annual pay (10.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,776 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: 139.8p · AppleGreen (1.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (1.9 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

27 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 180 kW
• Nearest: Singleton Barn (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches21
• Playgrounds26

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

132,747 residents in Ashford · 229/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,767
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,999
• Net moves+768

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 133 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,410 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (23% of 59,330)

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

62 schools · 22,861 pupils

43 primary · 7 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 19 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Ashford

1,676 CQC-registered services

• Care homes503
• GP practices222
• Dentists360
• Homecare agencies415
• Hospitals & hospices47

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 20 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kent

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

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

251 applications decided

92% granted · 231 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Sojan Joseph

Labour

Ashford

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Green coalition

• Lab 7
• Con 17
• Grn 12
• Oth 11

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

• Schools11
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,540 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

899 jobs advertised · £39,880 avg

e.g. Refrigeration Engineer, Field Sales Representative, Internal Sales Executive (Marine / Oil & Gas)

Source: Adzuna

£743 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,868 disposable income per head (2024)

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

52% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 62,944 certificates

9.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

52% low-carbon electricity

Gas 47% · Wind 36% · Nuclear 9% · Biomass 6%

192 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 81.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Kent): 63.9 women · 62.5 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

2 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in TN23

• Kingsnorth Medical Practice
• Kingsnorth Gynaecology

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Ashford:

• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent492 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases246 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND245 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth233 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks168 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

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  Stanhope, Kent · 0.8 km

  Stanhope is a civil parish and suburb of Ashford in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It was built in the 1960s on the southern edge of the town.

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  Great Chart · 1.0 km

  Great Chart is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Chart with Singleton, in the Ashford borough of Kent, England. The parish is split between the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern…

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  Great Chart with Singleton · 1.0 km

  Great Chart with Singleton is a civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The parish population is mostly concentrated in the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton housing development, b…

• Singleton, Kent · 1.0 km

  Singleton is a suburb of Ashford in Kent, South East England, first developed in the 1980s. Although Singleton forms a contiguous urban area with the large town of Ashford to its east, it is formally a part of Great C…

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  Chart Leacon TMD · 1.1 km

  Chart Leacon Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot was at one time a railway depot located in Ashford, Kent, England. The depot was situated 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the west of Ashford International station on the s…

• Norman Cycles · 1.2 km

  Norman Cycles was a British bicycle, autocycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturer in Ashford, Kent, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)