Waterham

20°CCloudy

• Today: 23° / 14° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 17° · Overcast

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

5 reported · July 2026▲ 400% YoY

• Criminal damage & arson2
• Other theft1
• Public order1
• Violence & sexual offences1

1 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Boughton and Courtenay · 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)

32 food businesses within 2 miles

• 30 rated 4–5 ★ (26 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Whitstable (5.6 km)
• 1 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 (1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 149.9p · BP (1 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

21 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: MFG Thanet Way Service Station (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1

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
• 11 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

Helen Whately

Conservative

Faversham and Mid Kent

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

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

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

• Schools1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens12
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,775 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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

30% low-carbon electricity

Gas 69% · Wind 17% · Nuclear 8% · Biomass 5%

277 gCO₂/kWh · very high 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 Faversham and Mid Kent:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership471 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s399 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership387 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test377 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office327 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  Graveney · 1.7 km

  Graveney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Graveney with Goodnestone, in the Swale district, in Kent, England. It is located between Faversham and Whitstable. The main part of the village is l…

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  Seasalter Levels · 1.9 km

  Seasalter Levels is a 71.4-hectare (176-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Seasalter, on the western outskirts of Whitstable in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury City Council. It is part of The Swale Ramsar site,…

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  Hernhill · 2.1 km

  Hernhill is a village and civil parish between Faversham and Canterbury in southeast England. The parish includes the hamlets of Crockham, Dargate, The Fostall, Lamberhurst, Oakwell, Staple Street, Thread, Waterham an…

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  Battle of Graveney Marsh · 2.2 km

  The Battle of Graveney Marsh, on the night of 27 September 1940 in the county of Kent, England, was the last ground engagement involving an organized foreign force to take place on the mainland of Great Britain. The f…

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  Foxes Cross Bottom · 2.3 km

  Foxes Cross Bottom is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) Local Nature Reserve north-west of Whitstable in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury City Council.

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  Goodnestone, Swale · 2.7 km

  Goodnestone is a village in the civil parish of Graveney with Goodnestone, in the Swale district of Kent, England. The village is mainly on the road 'Head Hill Road' towards Graveney.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)