Dover

18°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 18° · 84% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 17° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:23Sunset 19:18

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

28US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Sangatte, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

422 reported · July 2026▼ 1% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences164
• Anti-social behaviour83
• Shoplifting55
• Criminal damage & arson25

37 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Town & Castle · Kent

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

196 reported road collisions (2024)

57 killed or seriously injured · 242 casualties · 16.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

300 food businesses within 2 miles

• 260 rated 4–5 ★ (214 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Dover Priory (0.5 km)
• 45 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£276,234 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Dover · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,029 average monthly rent▲ 9.7% YoY

• 1 bed £734
• 2 bed £959
• 3 bed £1,175

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

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (7.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 139.9p · BP (0.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 146.9p · BP (0.9 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

18 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: Fishmonger's Lane Car Park (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms3
• Sports pitches15
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

116,413 residents in Dover · 369/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 107 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,462 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (31% of 55,880)

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

63 schools · 16,687 pupils

41 primary · 9 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 17 of 20 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

52inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dover

1,672 CQC-registered services

• Care homes501
• GP practices221
• Dentists362
• Homecare agencies415
• Hospitals & hospices47

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 25 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kent

• In a conservation area (Dover - Town Centre)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 132 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

175 applications decided

85.7% granted · 150 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Mike Tapp

Labour

Dover and Deal

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 12
• Con 13
• Oth 6

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

• Schools13
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets7
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés54

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,370 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

577 jobs advertised · £39,872 avg

e.g. Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Deliver with Uber Eats - Sign Up and Start Earning, Looking For Part-Time Opportunities? - Deliver with Uber Eats

Source: Adzuna

£767 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,830 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 60,033 certificates

12.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

27% low-carbon electricity

Imports 58% · Wind 24% · Gas 16% · Nuclear 2%

106 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 79.5 yrs men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dover and Deal:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases596 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership505 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership427 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s367 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office360 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  St Mary's Church, Dover · 0.0 km

  The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed Anglican church, a parish church in Dover, Kent, and is situated on Cannon Street in the town centre. There was a church on this site in Saxon times. It was large…

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  King's Hall, Dover · 0.1 km

  King's Hall is a former cinema, now a bingo club, in Dover, Kent, England. Dating from 1911, it was later called the Gaumont and remained a cinema until 1960. It has been a bingo club since 1961, from 2018 named Buzz…

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  Dover Museum · 0.1 km

  Dover Museum is a museum in Dover, Kent, in south-east England.

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  St Edmund's Chapel · 0.3 km

  St Edmund's Chapel is a church in Dover, England, dedicated to St Edmund. It was completed in 1262 as a wayside chapel or chapel of rest for the cemetery for the poor beside the Maison Dieu, just outside the enclosed…

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  Dover Bronze Age Boat · 0.3 km

  The Dover Bronze Age boat is one of fewer than 20 Bronze Age boats so far found in Britain. It dates to 1575–1520 BC, which may make it one of the oldest substantially intact boats in the world – though much older shi…

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  River Dour · 0.3 km

  The River Dour is a chalk stream in the county of Kent, England. It flows from the villages of Temple Ewell and River between which is a neighbourhood served by a railway station, Kearsney. It is roughly 4 miles (6.4…

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