St Mary's Bay

20°CLight rain shower

• Today: 22° / 17° · 85% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:17

12h 50m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Rochester Stoke, United Kingdom

13 reported · July 2026▼ 19% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences5
• Anti-social behaviour4
• Other crime2
• Criminal damage & arson1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Romney Marsh · Kent

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

162 reported road collisions (2024)

53 killed or seriously injured · 211 casualties · 14.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

64 food businesses within 2 miles

• 53 rated 4–5 ★ (43 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: St Mary's Bay (0.3 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£1,176 average monthly rent▲ 11.1% YoY

• 1 bed £804
• 2 bed £1,030
• 3 bed £1,283

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

8.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.1 times median annual pay (9.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 169.9p · Esso (9.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Esso (9.8 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

6 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: HIGH KNOCKE CAR PARK (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools5
• Sports pitches2
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

109,759 residents in Folkestone and Hythe · 308/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 84 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

6% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,539 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 53,780)

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

48 schools · 15,076 pupils

36 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 21 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

44inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Folkestone and Hythe

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
• 1 listed building within ~1.5 km

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

166 applications decided

82.5% granted · 137 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Tony Vaughan

Labour

Folkestone and Hythe

Source: UK Parliament

Green / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 8
• Con 5
• LD 2
• Grn 11
• Ref 1
• Oth 3

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

• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,440 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

12 jobs advertised · £28,142 avg

e.g. Become a Singing Tutor in St Mary's Bay – Flexible & Remote, Online Singing Tutoring Job in St Mary's Bay – Flexible Schedule, Online Spanish Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£755 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,977 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 62,831 certificates

12.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

12% low-carbon electricity

Imports 68% · Gas 20% · Wind 7% · Solar 5%

141 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Folkestone and Hythe:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases487 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership397 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office362 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership331 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance278 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide

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

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  St Mary's Bay, Kent · 0.1 km

  St Mary's Bay, also known as The Bay, is a coastal village in Kent, England. Situated on Romney Marsh, St Mary's Bay has a long sandy beach which stretches north to Dymchurch and south to Littlestone-on-Sea. It has a…

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  St Mary's Bay railway station · 0.3 km

  St. Mary's Bay railway station is a small station in St Mary's Bay, Kent, England, between the larger stations of New Romney and Dymchurch, on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

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  Golden Sands Halt railway station · 0.7 km

  Golden Sands Halt railway station was a private station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in St Mary's Bay, Kent, England. In the 1990s it was briefly renamed Reunion Halt.

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  Battle of Dungeness · 1.8 km

  The naval Battle of Dungeness took place on 30 November 1652 during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the cape of Dungeness in Kent.

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  Warren Halt railway station · 1.8 km

  Romney Warren Halt railway station is a station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England. It has also been known as Warren Halt and Warren Bridge Halt.

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  Romney Warren Country Park · 1.9 km

  Romney Warren or Romney Marsh is a 10.9-hectare (27-acre) country park and Local Nature Reserve in New Romney in Kent. It is owned by Folkestone and Hythe District Council and managed by the Romney Warren Project, whi…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)