West Kingsdown

9°COvercast

• Today: 12° / 8° · 61% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:55Sunset 16:29

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Dartford - St Clements 2, United Kingdom

• 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

11 reported · August 2026▼ 48% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Burglary2
• Other theft2
• Anti-social behaviour1

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Fawkham and West Kingsdown · Kent

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

265 reported road collisions (2025)

85 killed or seriously injured · 347 casualties · 22 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

32 food businesses within 2 miles

• 25 rated 4–5 ★ (23 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Eynsford (4.5 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£535,810 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across Sevenoaks · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,809 average monthly rent▲ 5% YoY

• 1 bed £1,266
• 2 bed £1,579
• 3 bed £1,926

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

13.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 13.4 times median annual pay (14.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,443 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · BP (11 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (11 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

10 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Brandshatch Place Hotel & Spa (2.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches3
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Councillors propose parking charge freeze· 2 Oct 2026
• Countdown begins to new wheelie bin collections, including glass recycling!· 1 Oct 2026
• Public Space Protection Order at The Vine to be extended· 23 Sept 2026
• Silver Sevenoaks District!· 22 Sept 2026
• Bradbourne Lakes restoration moves to next stage· 17 Sept 2026

Source: Sevenoaks Council

120,511 residents in Sevenoaks · 326/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,946
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,124
• Net moves+822

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 206 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,522 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (23% of 52,640)

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

65 schools · 17,192 pupils

42 primary · 3 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 17 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Sevenoaks

1,676 CQC-registered services

• Care homes503
• GP practices222
• Dentists360
• Homecare agencies415
• Hospitals & hospices47

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 20 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kent

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

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

287 applications decided

85.7% granted · 246 granted, 41 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Laura Trott

Conservative

Sevenoaks

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Con 27
• LD 14
• Grn 4
• Ref 2
• Oth 7

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens183
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,405 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

5 jobs advertised · £47,000 avg

e.g. Care Assistant, TECHNICAL SALES ENGINEER, Mortgage Advisor

Source: Adzuna

£901 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£39,738 disposable income per head (2024)

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

38% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 48,205 certificates

9.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

49% low-carbon electricity

Gas 47% · Wind 39% · Nuclear 6% · Biomass 4%

195 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 82.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Kent): 63.9 women · 62.5 men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

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

4 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in TN15

• Borough Green Medical Practice
• Community Ent
• Dermatology Ad Sevenoaks

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Sevenoaks:

• Remove the grey belt planning rules476 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide
• Mandatory suicide risk assessment for adolescents in hospital who express intent307 local signatures · 18,972 nationwide
• Criminalise unauthorised development & ban retrospective permission242 local signatures · 7,329 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND213 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence205 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  West Kingsdown Windmill · 0.9 km

  West Kingsdown Windmill is a Grade II listed smock mill in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, that was built in the early nineteenth century at Farningham and moved to West Kingsdown in 1880. It is the survivor of a pair…

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  West Kingsdown · 1.1 km

  West Kingsdown is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England, on the A20 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Swanley, 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of Sevenoaks and 22.5 miles (36.2 km) from London. In…

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  Knatts Valley · 1.4 km

  Knatts Valley is a hamlet in the civil parish of West Kingsdown, in the Sevenoaks district, in the county of Kent, England.

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  Brands Hatch · 1.5 km

  Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and curren…

• East Hill, Kent · 1.9 km

  East Hill is a hamlet in the civil parish of West Kingsdown, in the Sevenoaks District, in the county of Kent in England.

• London Golf Club · 1.9 km

  The London Golf Club is a privately owned golf course located in the village of Ash, Kent, approximately 20 miles southeast of London.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)