Welney

8°CCloudy

• Today: 12° / 6° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:22

9h 20m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, 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

4 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Downham Market · Norfolk

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

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)

3 food businesses within 2 miles

• 3 rated 4–5 ★ (3 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Manea (5.5 km)
• 4 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

• Cheapest petrol: 140.8p · AppleGreen (7.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 148.8p · AppleGreen (7.2 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• 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
• 1 listed building 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)

• Parks & greens1

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

78% low-carbon electricity

Wind 47% · Nuclear 21% · Gas 20% · Biomass 10%

91 gCO₂/kWh · moderate 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

2 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in PE14

• Upwell Health Centre
• St John'S 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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  Welney · 1.1 km

  Welney is a village and civil parish in the Fens of England and the county of Norfolk. The village is about 10 miles (16 km) south-west of the town of Downham Market, 20 miles (30 km) south of the town of King's Lynn…

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  Tipps End · 2.2 km

  Tipps End is an English hamlet on the B1100 road between Welney and Christchurch, Cambridgeshire. It is also sometimes referred to as "Tips End". It is on the border of the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, 8 k…

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  Christchurch, Cambridgeshire · 4.0 km

  Christchurch is a village in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 833. The village is sited close to the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.

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  Manea railway station · 5.5 km

  Manea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the village of Manea, Cambridgeshire. It is 80 miles 18 chains (129.1 km) measured from London Liverpool Street, and is situated…

• Hilgay railway station · 6.6 km

  Hilgay railway station was a station in Hilgay, Norfolk, United Kingdom which is now closed. It was on the Fen Line between King's Lynn and Cambridge. It was closed in 1963 along with nearby Stow Bardolph.

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  Stonea railway station · 6.7 km

  Stonea railway station is a former railway station serving the small village of Stonea, Cambridgeshire. Although the station closed in 1966, the line is still in use.

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