Upwell and Outwell

20°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 23° / 17° · 75% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:21

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

17 reported · July 2026▼ 26% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences13
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Public order1
• Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Downham Market · Norfolk

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

292 reported road collisions (2024)

104 killed or seriously injured · 397 casualties · 18.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

24 food businesses within 2 miles

• 19 rated 4–5 ★ (18 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 17 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£940 average monthly rent▲ 4.2% YoY

• 1 bed £650
• 2 bed £848
• 3 bed £1,051

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

• Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · BP (10.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (10.9 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

3 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons (6.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches9
• Playgrounds3

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)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 79 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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

82 schools · 19,176 pupils

64 primary · 8 secondary · 10 other

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

76inspected 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

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 (UPWELL CONSERVATION AREA)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 46 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

308 applications decided

89.6% granted · 276 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

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

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,690 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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

Life expectancy: 84.1 yrs women · 81.1 yrs 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South West Norfolk:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office431 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership382 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s319 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test292 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases252 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

• Upwell railway station · 0.2 km

  Upwell railway station was a station in Upwell, Norfolk on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. It was opened in 1883 to carry passengers and agricultural wares to Wisbech where they would go to market, or be shipped off t…

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  Sander's Mill, Upwell · 0.6 km

  Sander's Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Upwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Originally standing in Cambridgeshire, it had five sails when built. Later raised by one storey and converted to four sails, it worked…

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  Upwell · 1.0 km

  Upwell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Upwell village is on the A1101 road, as is Outwell, its conjoined village at the north. The nearest towns are Wisbech to the north-west and Downha…

• Outwell Village railway station · 1.1 km

  Outwell Village railway station was a station in Outwell, Norfolk on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. It opened in 1884 and closed to passengers in 1928. Goods services ran on a while longer, before finishing in 1966.…

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  Beaupré Hall · 1.8 km

  Beaupré Hall was a large 16th-century house mainly of brick, which was built by the Beaupres in Outwell, Norfolk, England and enlarged by their successors the Bells. Like many of Britain's country houses it was demoli…

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  Outwell · 1.8 km

  Outwell is a village and civil parish in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, in the English county of Norfolk.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)