Preston (Dover)

13°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 13° / 8° · 27% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 10° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:48Sunset 16:29

9h 41m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

54US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

1 reported · August 2026▼ 80% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1

1 stop & searches · mostly firearms

Neighbourhood team: Little Stour & Adisham · Kent

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

284 reported road collisions (2025)

81 killed or seriously injured · 357 casualties · 18 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

11 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Sturry (7.0 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£336,427 average▼ 0.3% YoY

Across Canterbury · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,280 average monthly rent▲ 5.4% YoY

• 1 bed £876
• 2 bed £1,132
• 3 bed £1,368

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

9.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.4 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,981 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: 151.9p · Esso (8.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (8.8 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

6 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Ash Parish Hall (5.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

157,429 residents in Canterbury · 510/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK14,325
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK14,447
• Net moves−122

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 149 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,419 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (30% of 71,860)

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

64 schools · 25,120 pupils

35 primary · 10 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 16 of 17 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Canterbury

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
• 53 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

218 applications decided

93.1% granted · 203 granted, 15 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Labour (minority)

• Lab 18
• Con 8
• LD 8
• Grn 4
• Oth 1

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,865 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£735 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,464 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 78,894 certificates

12% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 80.3 yrs men

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

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

3 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in CT3

• Ash Surgery
• Aylesham Medical Practice
• Community Childrens Nursing

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Herne Bay and Sandwich:

• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent935 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases328 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND308 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects236 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth196 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

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

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  Preston-next-Wingham · 0.6 km

  Preston or Preston-next-Wingham is a civil parish and village in the valley of the Little Stour in the Dover District of Kent, England. The village is on the B2076 secondary road. The parish includes the hamlet of Elm…

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  All Saints Church, West Stourmouth · 1.6 km

  All Saints Church, West Stourmouth, is a redundant Anglican church in the civil parish of Stourmouth, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, an…

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  Stourmouth · 1.7 km

  Stourmouth is a civil parish in the Dover non-metropolitan district of Kent, England. The parish contains the settlements of East and West Stourmouth, and the hamlet of Plucks Gutter.

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  Grove Ferry · 1.8 km

  Grove Ferry is place near Upstreet, Kent, England, on the site of an old hand-drawn ferry that once crossed the River Stour here.

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  Preston Marshes · 1.9 km

  Preston Marshes is a 43.4-hectare (107-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Canterbury in Kent.

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  Grove Ferry and Upstreet railway station · 2.0 km

  Grove Ferry and Upstreet was a railway station in east Kent. It was opened by South Eastern Railway (SER), on the Ashford to Ramsgate line between Sturry station and Minster station.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)