Paddock Wood

7°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 7° · 10% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:56Sunset 16:27

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

• 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

65 reported · August 2026▲ 3% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour19
• Violence & sexual offences19
• Other theft8
• Shoplifting5

4 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Paddock Wood · Kent

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

312 reported road collisions (2025)

97 killed or seriously injured · 399 casualties · 17.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

63 food businesses within 2 miles

• 57 rated 4–5 ★ (49 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Paddock Wood (0.5 km)
• 17 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£352,878 average▼ 1.1% YoY

Across Maidstone · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,297 average monthly rent▲ 3% YoY

• 1 bed £919
• 2 bed £1,193
• 3 bed £1,461

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

10.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.1 times median annual pay (10.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,292 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: 154.9p · Esso (6.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (11.2 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

16 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Berry Gardens Tonbridge (3.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches9
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

175,782 residents in Maidstone · 447/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,828
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK10,023
• Net moves+1,805

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 155 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,503 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 78,560)

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

73 schools · 31,220 pupils

49 primary · 12 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 26 of 27 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Maidstone

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
• 29 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

261 applications decided

83.1% granted · 217 granted, 44 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Mike Martin

Liberal Democrat

Tunbridge Wells

Source: UK Parliament

Green / Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 6
• Con 13
• LD 11
• Grn 12
• Ref 3
• Oth 4

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

• Schools2
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens74
• Restaurants & cafés13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,355 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

44 jobs advertised · £39,821 avg

e.g. IT Support Engineer - Paddock Wood, Senior Practice Accountant, Snr.Technical Acc.Mngr/ Virtual CIO

Source: Adzuna

£774 median full-time weekly pay

3.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,404 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 · 85,101 certificates

9.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

57% low-carbon electricity

Wind 47% · Imports 24% · Gas 20% · Nuclear 6%

111 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.6 yrs women · 80.2 yrs men

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

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.9
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

4 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in TN12

• Woodlands Health Centre
• Howell Surgery
• Marden Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Tunbridge Wells:

• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND418 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent316 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks315 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately171 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence170 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide

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

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  Paddock Wood railway station · 0.5 km

  Paddock Wood railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line and Medway Valley Line in south-east England, serving the Borough of Tunbridge Wells town of Paddock Wood. The station also serves the villages of Matfiel…

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  Paddock Wood · 0.5 km

  Paddock Wood is a town and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Maidstone. At the 2011 Census it had a population of 8,253 falling to 8160 at the 2021 Cen…

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  John Brunt V.C. (public house) · 0.6 km

  The John Brunt V.C. is a public house in Paddock Wood in Kent, England. Originally named The Kent Arms, on 3 September 1947 the pub was formally renamed John Brunt V.C. in honour of an English soldier, John Brunt, who…

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  St Andrew's Church, Paddock Wood · 0.6 km

  St Andrew's Church is a joint Church of England and Methodist church in Paddock Wood, Kent, England.

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  Badsell · 1.0 km

  Badsell in the parish of Tudeley in Kent, is an historic estate, near today's village of Paddock Wood.

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  Foal Hurst Wood · 1.3 km

  Foal Hurst Wood is a 12.9-hectare (32-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the south-western outskirts of Paddock Wood in Kent. It is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and managed by Paddock Wood Town Council.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)