Hockwold cum Wilton

10°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 7° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:23

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

• 6.9 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

277 reported road collisions (2025)

89 killed or seriously injured · 359 casualties · 17.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

18 food businesses within 2 miles

• 16 rated 4–5 ★ (14 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Lakenheath (2.0 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£941 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £650
• 2 bed £848
• 3 bed £1,053

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

7.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.3 times median annual pay (7.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,102 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

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 7 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Metro-Brandon (5.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

154,325 residents in King's Lynn and West Norfolk · 107/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,732
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,221
• Net moves+1,511

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 69 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,430 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (32% of 75,900)

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

83 schools · 19,176 pupils

65 primary · 8 secondary · 10 other

Ofsted: 28 of 32 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · King's Lynn and West Norfolk

880 CQC-registered services

• Care homes319
• GP practices128
• Dentists172
• Homecare agencies178
• Hospitals & hospices29

CQC ratings: 80% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 25 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Norfolk

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

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

250 applications decided

85.6% granted · 214 granted, 36 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Terry Jermy

Labour

South West Norfolk

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

• Lab 5
• Con 17
• LD 2
• Ref 7
• Oth 24

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,800 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£731 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,249 disposable income per head (2024)

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

36% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 87,439 certificates

12.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

56% low-carbon electricity

Gas 43% · Wind 36% · Nuclear 14% · Biomass 6%

176 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Norfolk): 61.1 women · 61.3 men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

1 GP surgery · 0 pharmacies in IP26

• Feltwell Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South West Norfolk:

• Stop plans to use MoD sites for asylum seekers without full local consultation749 local signatures · 23,862 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK260 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases255 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately194 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks184 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide

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

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  Hockwold cum Wilton · 0.3 km

  Hockwold cum Wilton is a civil parish and village in the English county of Norfolk.

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  St Peter's Church, Hockwold · 0.6 km

  St Peter's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Hockwold cum Wilton in Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is unde…

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  Lakenheath railway station · 1.9 km

  Lakenheath railway station is on the Breckland Line in the east of England, serving the village of Lakenheath, Suffolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east.

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  RAF Feltwell · 2.5 km

  Royal Air Force Feltwell or more simply RAF Feltwell is a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, East Anglia that is used by the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa. The station is located about 10 mil…

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  Weeting Heath · 2.7 km

  Weeting Heath is a 141.8-hectare (350-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Thetford in Norfolk, England, which is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. It is a Nature Conservation Review site,…

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  Feltwell · 3.1 km

  Feltwell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Thetford and 34 miles (55 km) south-west of Norwich on the western border of the county where it meets Camb…

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