Mersham

9°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 10° / 7° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:25

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US 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

6 reported · August 2026▲ 20% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences4
• Drugs1
• Public order1

5 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Mersham, Sevington South with Finberry · 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)

43 food businesses within 2 miles

• 38 rated 4–5 ★ (37 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Ashford International (5.0 km)
• 4 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 (5.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (5.2 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: Tesco Extra-Ashford Crooksfoot (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds2

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
• 65 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

Independent / Green coalition

• Lab 7
• Con 17
• Grn 12
• Oth 11

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

• Schools3
• Parks & greens13
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,540 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

5 jobs advertised · £27,622 avg

e.g. Support Worker, Senior Support Worker, Bank Support Worker

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

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

14 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in TN25

• Wye Surgery
• Sellindge Surgery
• Ashford Group

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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  Mersham · 0.1 km

  Mersham is a mostly agricultural large village and civil parish near Ashford in Kent, England. The population of the civil parish includes the area of Cheesman's Green now known as Finberry.

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  Hatch Park · 1.5 km

  Hatch Park is a 71.8-hectare (177-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Ashford in Kent. It is listed by Historic England on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Intere…

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  Smeeth railway station · 1.7 km

  Smeeth is a disused railway station on the South Eastern Main Line which served the village of Smeeth in Kent, England. The station opened in 1852 and closed in 1954.

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  Smeeth · 1.9 km

  Smeeth is a mostly agricultural land use village and civil parish, centred 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Ashford in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England.

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  Sevington · 2.2 km

  Sevington is a village in the civil parish of Sevington with Finberry, in the Ashford district, in Kent, England.

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  Scot's Hall · 2.5 km

  Scot's Hall was a country house in Smeeth, between Ashford and Folkestone in southeast England. It was the property of a gentry family, the Scotts.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)