Rough Common

16°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 14° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:24Sunset 19:19

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Rochester Stoke, United Kingdom

47 reported · July 2026▲ 38% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences24
• Criminal damage & arson8
• Anti-social behaviour7
• Other theft2

7 stop & searches · mostly stolen goods

Neighbourhood team: Blean Forest · Kent

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

276 reported road collisions (2024)

72 killed or seriously injured · 375 casualties · 17.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

494 food businesses within 2 miles

• 414 rated 4–5 ★ (347 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Canterbury West (2.1 km)
• 20 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£338,030 average▲ 3.3% YoY

Across Canterbury · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,281 average monthly rent▲ 5.7% YoY

• 1 bed £876
• 2 bed £1,133
• 3 bed £1,369

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 143.9p · BP (5.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 149.9p · BP (5.8 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

37 charging locations within ~8 km

• 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Canterbury Christ Church University (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches48
• Playgrounds4

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)

Around the average in England

Ranked 185 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Canterbury

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 49 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

220 applications decided

97.7% granted · 215 granted, 5 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Rosie Duffield

Independent

Canterbury

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

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

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

• Schools7
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens18
• Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,775 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

43 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Chemistry Tutoring Job in Rough Common – Flexible Schedule, Become a Personal trainers Tutor in Rough Common – Flexible & Remote, Online Yoga Tutoring Job in Rough Common – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£735 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% 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

70% low-carbon electricity

Wind 49% · Gas 16% · Imports 14% · Solar 8%

76 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 80.3 yrs 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Canterbury:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership2,058 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership493 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s353 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases317 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset311 local signatures · 30,175 nationwide

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

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  Rough Common · 0.2 km

  Rough Common is a village in Canterbury in the parish of Harbledown, Kent, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Harbledown and Rough Common.

• Kent College · 0.6 km

  Kent College, Canterbury is an English co-educational private school for boarding and day pupils between the ages of 3 months and 18 years. It was founded in 1885, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresse…

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  St Edmund's School Canterbury · 0.8 km

  St Edmund's School Canterbury is a private day and boarding school located in Canterbury, Kent, England and established in 1749. The extensive school grounds were acquired in 1855. The school currently caters for girl…

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  Canterbury (constituency) · 1.0 km

  Canterbury is a constituency in Kent, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Rosie Duffield, formerly of the Labour Party, and since September 2024, an Independent.

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  Harbledown · 1.0 km

  Harbledown is a village in the Canterbury district, in Kent, England, immediately west of Canterbury and contiguous with the city. At local government level the village is designated as a separate civil parish, that o…

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  St Michael and All Angels Church, Harbledown · 1.1 km

  The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Norman stone church in the village of Harbledown, near Canterbury, England. A part of the Church of England, it follows the Anglo-Catholic tradition, is a parish of the Soc…

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