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Egerton

Egerton is a village in Kent, England. It has 2 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Pluckley, 4.4 km away. There were around 4 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly Burglary. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Egerton area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Ashford area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 132,747 residents at roughly 229 people per km².

Council
Ashford
County
Kent
Constituency
Ashford
Police force
Kent
55/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 117th of 294 English council areas — better than 60% of them.

Low crime48
Home affordability27
Affordable rents23
Good schools95
Life expectancy63
Low deprivation45
Employment60
Low council tax57

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°CSunny

  • Today: 10° / 7° · 12% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:55Sunset 16:26

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

2 reported · August 2026▼ 67% YoY

  • Other theft2

Neighbourhood team: Weald North · Kent

Local policing priorities

  • Catapults.
  • Road safety issues.

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

15 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 14 rated 4–5 ★ (12 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Pluckley (4.4 km)
  • 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Pluckley (4.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£340,991 average▼ 0.8% YoY

Across Ashford · to 2026-08

Detached£549,212
Semi-detached£341,227
Terraced£280,890
Flat£161,628

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 139.8p · AppleGreen (11.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (11.5 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

3 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: BP Pulse Lenham SF Connect (5.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools5
  • Sports pitches9
  • Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

132,747 residents in Ashford · 229/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

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

Council tax

£2,410 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,607
B £1,875
C £2,142
D £2,410
E £2,946
F £3,481
G £4,017
H £4,820

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Homewood School and Sixth Form CentreGood
  • The Norton Knatchbull SchoolGood
  • Chilmington Green School
  • Highworth Grammar School
  • The North School
  • Towers School and Sixth Form Centre
  • Wye School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Ashford

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

251 applications decided

92% granted · 231 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Katie Lam

Conservative

Weald of Kent

Recent votes:

  • NoMotion 3
  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Independent / Green coalition

  • Lab 7
  • Con 17
  • Grn 12
  • Oth 11

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,540 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

57 jobs advertised

e.g. Tiler (Self-Employed), Bathroom Fitter (Self-Employed), Roofer (Self-Employed)

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

66% low-carbon electricity

Wind 51% · Gas 33% · Nuclear 9% · Biomass 6%

138 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in TN27

  • Charing Surgery
  • Charing Urology
  • Apcos Headcorn Eye Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Weald of Kent:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Egerton, Kent · 0.1 km

    Egerton is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is on the Greensand Ridge 9 miles (14.4 km) north of Ashford and stretches three miles south into a lower plain towards the W…

  • Volvo World Match Play Championship · 0.5 km

    The Volvo World Match Play Championship was an annual match play men's professional golf tournament which was staged from 1964 to 2014.

  • 2014 Volvo World Match Play Championship · 0.5 km

    The 2014 Volvo World Match Play Championship was the 49th World Match Play Championship to be played. It was held 15–19 October, with the champion receiving €650,000. The format was 16 players split into four pools of…

  • List of local nature reserves in Kent · 0.5 km

    Kent is a county in the south-eastern corner of England. It is bounded to the north by Greater London and the Thames Estuary, to the west by Sussex and Surrey, and to the south and east by the English Channel and the…

  • Stonebridge Green · 0.7 km

    Stonebridge Green is a settlement adjacent to, and within the civil parish of, Egerton in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It lies immediately north east of the main village, and includes the bridge over the Gre…

  • Rivers of Kent · 2.1 km

    Four major rivers drain the county of Kent, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Egerton?
Egerton is a town in Kent, England, in the Ashford local authority.
How deprived is Egerton?
The Ashford local authority, which includes Egerton, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.