Queenborough

19°CLight rain shower

• Today: 20° / 18° · 81% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 18° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:27Sunset 19:18

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Rochester Stoke, United Kingdom

97 reported · July 2026▲ 15% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences34
• Anti-social behaviour26
• Criminal damage & arson9
• Other theft6

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Queenborough and Halfway · Kent

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

274 reported road collisions (2024)

85 killed or seriously injured · 368 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

176 food businesses within 2 miles

• 155 rated 4–5 ★ (125 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Queenborough (0.4 km)
• 14 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£298,394 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Swale · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,103 average monthly rent▲ 0.9% YoY

• 1 bed £771
• 2 bed £1,019
• 3 bed £1,231

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

8.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.8 times median annual pay (9.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 166.9p · Asda (10.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.7p · Asda (7.6 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons (1.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches11
• Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

151,677 residents in Swale · 406/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 69 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

19% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,406 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 67,440)

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

71 schools · 24,238 pupils

49 primary · 9 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 18 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (78%)

61inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Swale

1,672 CQC-registered services

• Care homes501
• GP practices221
• Dentists362
• Homecare agencies415
• Hospitals & hospices47

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 25 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kent

• In a conservation area (Queenborough)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 24 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

154 applications decided

88.3% granted · 136 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Kevin McKenna

Labour

Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 15
• Con 10
• LD 5
• Grn 2
• Ref 4
• Oth 11

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,045 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

54 jobs advertised · £34,605 avg

e.g. Software Team Leader, Hardware Team Leader, Senior/Principal Hardware Engineer

Source: Adzuna

£761 median full-time weekly pay

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

£24,338 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 · 68,235 certificates

11.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

9% low-carbon electricity

Imports 67% · Gas 23% · Wind 9% · Hydro 0%

154 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Sittingbourne and Sheppey:

• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test464 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office421 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s407 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership379 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth313 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Queenborough · 0.1 km

  Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.

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  Queenborough Guildhall · 0.1 km

  Queenborough Guildhall is a former municipal building in the High Street in Queenborough, Kent, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II listed building.

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  Queenborough Castle · 0.3 km

  Queenborough Castle, also known as Sheppey Castle, is a 14th-century castle, the remnants of which are in the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent in England. The castle and the associated planned town we…

• Crundells Wharf · 0.3 km

  Crundells Wharf was a general purpose wharf once used by sailing barges bringing cargoes of timber and building materials to Queenborough near Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England. Situated across the wat…

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  Queenborough railway station · 0.4 km

  Queenborough railway station is on the Sheerness Line, on the Isle of Sheppey in northern Kent, and serves the town of Queenborough. It is 49 miles 22 chains (79.3 km) down the line from London Victoria. Train service…

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  Rushenden · 0.9 km

  Rushenden is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of Queenborough. A railway spur line formerly passed through the village to…

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