Bungay

20°COvercast

• Today: 24° / 14° · 25% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:22Sunset 19:18

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

37 reported · July 2026▲ 12% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences17
• Anti-social behaviour9
• Criminal damage & arson6
• Vehicle crime2

Neighbourhood team: Bungay and Wainford · Suffolk

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

267 reported road collisions (2024)

77 killed or seriously injured · 372 casualties · 18.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

75 food businesses within 2 miles

• 65 rated 4–5 ★ (55 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 29 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£312,124 average▲ 2% YoY

Across South Norfolk · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£981 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £696
• 2 bed £890
• 3 bed £1,107

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 (8.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Morrisons (8.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Morrisons (8.9 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches20
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

141,948 residents in South Norfolk · 156/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 225 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,483 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (27% of 67,580)

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

78 schools · 20,759 pupils

64 primary · 8 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 24 of 31 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (77%)

74inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Norfolk

877 CQC-registered services

• Care homes320
• GP practices126
• Dentists171
• Homecare agencies178
• Hospitals & hospices29

CQC ratings: 81% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 23 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Norfolk

• In a conservation area (Bungay)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 205 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

211 applications decided

92.4% granted · 195 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Adrian Ramsay

Green Party

Waveney Valley

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 9
• Con 23
• LD 9
• Grn 1
• Oth 4

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,590 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

97 jobs advertised · £43,649 avg

e.g. Online Piano Tutoring Job in Flixton – Flexible Schedule, Online Primary school Tutoring Job in Flixton (North Yorkshire) – Flexible Schedule, Office Manager & PA

Source: Adzuna

£767 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,437 disposable income per head (2024)

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

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,071 certificates

10.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

85% low-carbon electricity

Wind 43% · Solar 19% · Nuclear 18% · Gas 15%

65 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.2 yrs women · 81.5 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Waveney Valley:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership476 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership410 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office315 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s263 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases222 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Bungay Priory · 0.1 km

  Bungay Priory was a Benedictine nunnery in the town of Bungay in the English county of Suffolk. It was founded c. 1160–1185 by the Countess Gundreda, wife or widow of Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, upon lands of her…

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  Bungay St Mary · 0.1 km

  Bungay St Mary was a civil parish in the administrative county of East Suffolk, in Suffolk, England. At the 1901 census, Bungay St Mary had a population of 1674. The church, St Mary's Church is a Grade I listed building.

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  St Mary's Church, Bungay · 0.1 km

  St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the town of Bungay, Suffolk, England. The church and the ruins of the adjacent priory are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I l…

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  Bungay Holy Trinity · 0.2 km

  Bungay Holy Trinity is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Bungay, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. At the 1901 census, Bungay Holy Trinity had a population of 1640. The church,…

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  Bungay · 0.2 km

  Bungay is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It lies in the Waveney Valley, 5+1⁄2 miles west of Beccles on the edge of The Broads, and at the neck of a mea…

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  Bungay Castle · 0.2 km

  Bungay Castle is a Grade I listed building in the town of Bungay, Suffolk.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)