Great Glen

7°CCloudy

• Today: 10° / 5° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:27

9h 19m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Leicester University, United Kingdom

• 6.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

19 reported · August 2026▲ 46% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences6
• Public order4
• Shoplifting3
• Criminal damage & arson2

Neighbourhood team: Harborough North · Leicestershire

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

111 reported road collisions (2025)

56 killed or seriously injured · 155 casualties · 11.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

35 food businesses within 2 miles

• 32 rated 4–5 ★ (31 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: South Wigston (6.7 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£341,706 average▲ 5% YoY

Across Harborough · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£973 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £713
• 2 bed £911
• 3 bed £1,117

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

10.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.4 times median annual pay (10.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,596 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: 140.8p · AppleGreen (9.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 145.8p · AppleGreen (9.1 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

34 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: RAW GREENE KING FOX POND 2 (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches28
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• New parish council approved for Market Harborough· 3 Nov 2026
• Residents invited to join Remembrance events across Harborough district· 2 Nov 2026
• Local Government Re-organisation update· 29 Oct 2026
• Kibworth Air Quality Management Area to be revoked following air quality improvements· 27 Oct 2026
• Councils proceed with judicial review claim in view of pause on local government reorganisation· 15 Oct 2026

Source: Harborough Council

97,626 residents in Harborough · 165/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,339
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,256
• Net moves+2,083

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

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 283 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,390 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (22% of 44,900)

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

50 schools · 15,634 pupils

36 primary · 6 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 11 of 14 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Harborough

633 CQC-registered services

• Care homes165
• GP practices107
• Dentists134
• Homecare agencies172
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Leicestershire

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

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

192 applications decided

90.1% granted · 173 granted, 19 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Neil O'Brien

Conservative

Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 2
• Con 15
• LD 7
• Grn 3
• Ref 2
• Oth 5

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,955 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Catering Assistant

Source: Adzuna

£857 median full-time weekly pay

1.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£29,293 disposable income per head (2024)

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

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 43,939 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 40% · Biomass 32% · Gas 20% · Imports 4%

115 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 81.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Leicestershire): 61.4 women · 61.5 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

5 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in LE8

• South Leicestershire Medical Group
• Countesthorpe Health Centre
• Northfield Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Harborough, Oadby and Wigston:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases227 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND204 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth203 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills201 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks192 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

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  Great Glen Methodist Church · 0.2 km

  Great Glen Methodist Church, Leicestershire, was built in 1827 and a church hall was later added to the east of the church in 1879.

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  Great Glen, Leicestershire · 0.5 km

  Great Glen is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is 2 miles south of Oadby and about seven miles south-east of Leicester. The population of the civil parish at the 201…

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  Leicester Grammar School · 0.8 km

  Leicester Grammar School is a private co-educational secondary day school situated in Great Glen, Leicestershire, England. It was founded in 1981, after the loss of the city's state-funded grammar schools.

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  Great Glen railway station · 1.7 km

  Great Glen railway station was built by the Midland Railway in 1857 on its extension from Leicester to Bedford and Hitchin.

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  Newton Harcourt · 1.9 km

  Newton Harcourt is a village in the civil parish of Wistow, in the Harborough district, in the English county of Leicestershire, and lies 7 miles south-east of the city of Leicester on the northern ridge of the River…

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  Kilby - Foxton Canal · 2.1 km

  Kilby - Foxton Canal is a 32.1 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest along the Grand Union Canal and its banks in Leicestershire, between Kilby Bridge, south of Wigston, and Debdale Wharf, north of F…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)