Folkestone

11°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 9° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:53Sunset 16:24

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

• 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

514 reported · August 2026▲ 12% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour157
• Violence & sexual offences144
• Shoplifting55
• Criminal damage & arson48

59 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Folkestone Central · Kent

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

205 reported road collisions (2025)

59 killed or seriously injured · 260 casualties · 18.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

455 food businesses within 2 miles

• 394 rated 4–5 ★ (351 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Folkestone Central (0.1 km)
• 56 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,178 average monthly rent▲ 10.6% YoY

• 1 bed £805
• 2 bed £1,031
• 3 bed £1,285

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

8.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.1 times median annual pay (9.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,609 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: 159.9p · Esso (3.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 192.9p · Esso (3.5 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

31 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Civic Center Visitors Car Park 1 (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres6
• Gyms5
• Swimming pools11
• Sports pitches48
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds18

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

109,759 residents in Folkestone and Hythe · 308/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,215
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,647
• Net moves+568

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 66 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,539 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 53,780)

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

48 schools · 15,076 pupils

36 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 21 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Folkestone and Hythe

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
• 161 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

159 applications decided

84.3% granted · 134 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Tony Vaughan

Labour

Folkestone and Hythe

Source: UK Parliament

Green / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 8
• Con 5
• LD 2
• Grn 11
• Ref 1
• Oth 3

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

• Schools18
• GPs & clinics8
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets6
• Parks & greens441
• Restaurants & cafés137

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,485 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

294 jobs advertised · £44,151 avg

e.g. Lead Database Developer, Interim Assistant Finance Manager, Residential Support Worker

Source: Adzuna

£755 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,977 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 · 62,831 certificates

12.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

39% low-carbon electricity

Gas 51% · Wind 27% · Imports 10% · Nuclear 5%

215 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

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

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

6 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in CT20

• Folkestone Medical Centre
• Guildhall Street Surgery
• Sandgate Road

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Folkestone and Hythe:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases489 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent374 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects252 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks220 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND212 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

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

• South Kent College · 0.1 km

  South Kent College (SKC) was a college of further and higher education in southeast England. The main campus was in Folkestone, with satellites in Dover and at several sites in Ashford. Following a KPMG report in 200…

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  Folkestone Triennial · 0.1 km

  The Creative Folkestone Triennial is an arts festival held every three years in Folkestone, Kent, England.

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  Folkestone Central railway station · 0.2 km

  Folkestone Central railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, and is the main station serving the town of Folkestone, Kent. It is 69 miles 73 chains (112.5 km) down the line from London Charing Cros…

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  History of Folkestone · 0.5 km

  The history of Folkestone stretches back to ancient times, with evidence of human habitation dating to the Mesolithic and Paleolithic ages over 12,000 years ago. Its close proximity to the Continent means that it has…

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  Pleasure Gardens Theatre · 0.6 km

  The Pleasure Gardens Theatre was a theatre in Folkestone in Kent. It was opened in 1886 in a building that had previously been constructed as an Exhibition Hall in 1851. It was later converted into a cinema before clo…

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  Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone · 0.6 km

  The Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, is a community hospital located on the edge of Radnor Park in Folkestone, Kent, in England. It is managed by the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)