Sittingbourne

16°COvercast

• Today: 21° / 16° · 78% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 14° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:25Sunset 19:20

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

351 reported · July 2026▼ 14% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences108
• Anti-social behaviour72
• Shoplifting48
• Other theft28

25 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Chalkwell · 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)

313 food businesses within 2 miles

• 284 rated 4–5 ★ (239 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Sittingbourne (0.2 km)
• 47 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 (8.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.7p · Asda (1.1 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

18 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Swale Council-Albany Road Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres5
• Gyms3
• Sports pitches51
• Playgrounds15

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 91 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)

• Schools20
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets10
• Parks & greens18
• Restaurants & cafés53

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,045 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

797 jobs advertised · £39,424 avg

e.g. Hardware Team Leader, Senior Systems Engineer, 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

18% low-carbon electricity

Imports 68% · Wind 16% · Gas 14% · Nuclear 1%

115 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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  Sittingbourne railway station · 0.2 km

  Sittingbourne railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the Sheerness Line in north Kent. It is 44 miles 59 chains (72.0 km) down the line from London Victoria. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

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  Borough of Swale · 0.2 km

  Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. The council is based in Sittingbourne, the borough's largest town. The borough also contains the towns of Faversham, Queenborough and Sheernes…

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  Borden Grammar School · 0.5 km

  Borden Grammar School is a grammar school with academy status in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, which educates boys aged 11–18. A small number of girls have also been admitted to the Sixth Form. The school holds specia…

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  Sittingbourne · 0.5 km

  Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, 17 miles (27 km) from Canterbury and 45 miles (72 km) from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the…

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  Highsted Grammar School · 1.0 km

  Highsted Grammar School is a state-funded selective secondary school for girls in Sittingbourne, Kent.

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  Sittingbourne and Milton Urban District · 1.0 km

  Sittingbourne and Milton was an urban district in Kent, England, consisting of the settlements of Sittingbourne and Milton Regis. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and made part of the Swal…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)