Wickhambreaux

16°COvercast

• Today: 24° / 14° · 10% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:24Sunset 19:18

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

5 reported · July 2026

• Criminal damage & arson3
• Other theft1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Little Stour & Adisham · 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)

28 food businesses within 2 miles

• 21 rated 4–5 ★ (16 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Bekesbourne (4.3 km)
• 5 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: 151.9p · Esso (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (11.7 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Littlebourne Parish Council (1.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds1

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

• In a conservation area (ICKHAM-WICKHAMBREAUX-SEATON)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 99 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)

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics2
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,775 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised

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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

25% low-carbon electricity

Gas 54% · Imports 21% · Nuclear 9% · Wind 8%

233 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 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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  Wickhambreaux · 0.2 km

  Wickhambreaux is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. The village is just off the A257 Sandwich Road, four miles east of the city of Canterbury. Since Roman times the…

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  Wingham River · 1.4 km

  The River Wingham is a tributary of the Little Stour in Kent, England.

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  St Vincent of Saragossa Church, Littlebourne · 1.5 km

  St Vincent of Saragossa's Church is the Church of England parish church of Littlebourne, Kent, England. The parish is part of the Benefice of Littlebourne including Ickham, Wickhambreaux and Stodmarsh. It is a Grade I…

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  Littlebourne · 1.6 km

  Littlebourne is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Canterbury in Kent, South East England.

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  Stodmarsh · 1.7 km

  Stodmarsh is a small village in the civil parish of Wickhambreaux, in the Canterbury district, in east Kent, England. It is 5 miles to the east of Canterbury, overlooking the valley of the River Stour.

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  Preston Marshes · 1.7 km

  Preston Marshes is a 43.4-hectare (107-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Canterbury in Kent.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)