Croughton

17°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 24° / 16° · 50% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 12° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:24

12h 48m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

12US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026▼ 40% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Shoplifting1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Brackley · Northamptonshire

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

751 reported road collisions (2024)

133 killed or seriously injured · 990 casualties · 17.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

6 food businesses within 2 miles

• 6 rated 4–5 ★ (6 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: King's Sutton (5.7 km)
• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£292,754 average▲ 2.5% YoY

Across West Northamptonshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,078 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £748
• 2 bed £950
• 3 bed £1,160

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

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (8.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 162.9p · Morrisons (11.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 140.8p · AppleGreen (11.1 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

11 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: zest-year-help-word (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches10
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

425,727 residents in West Northamptonshire · 309/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

£2,487 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 185,940)

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

208 schools · 69,080 pupils

148 primary · 17 secondary · 43 other

Ofsted: 88 of 95 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

187inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Northamptonshire

447 CQC-registered services

• Care homes107
• GP practices57
• Dentists64
• Homecare agencies170
• Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 79% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Northamptonshire

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

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

449 applications decided

90.4% granted · 406 granted, 43 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sarah Bool

Conservative

South Northamptonshire

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 8
• Con 17
• LD 7
• Ref 39
• Oth 5

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

21,595 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Furniture Driver

Source: Adzuna

£728 median full-time weekly pay

3.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,629 disposable income per head (2024)

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

64% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 61,687 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

38% low-carbon electricity

Gas 59% · Biomass 25% · Wind 12% · Imports 3%

261 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 80.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 61.9 women · 61.6 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Northamptonshire:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership425 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office413 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 401 local signatures · 10,809 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s354 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership327 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Croughton, Northamptonshire · 0.2 km

  Croughton is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Brackley. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 992.

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  Death of Harry Dunn · 0.7 km

  Harry Dunn was a 19-year-old British man who died following a head-on road traffic collision on 27 August 2019. He was riding his motorcycle near Croughton, Northamptonshire, near the exit to RAF Croughton, when a car…

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  RAF Croughton · 1.8 km

  Royal Air Force Croughton or more simply RAF Croughton is a Royal Air Force station in Northamptonshire, England, located southeast of the village of Croughton. It is currently a United States Air Force communications…

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  Rainsborough Camp · 2.3 km

  Rainsborough Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in West Northamptonshire, England, between the villages of Croughton, Aynho, and Charlton.

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  Church of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Souldern · 2.9 km

  The Parish Church of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Church of England parish church of Souldern, a village in Oxfordshire about 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Bicester and a similar distance southeas…

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  The Cottage, Charlton, Northamptonshire · 2.9 km

  The Cottage, Charlton, Northamptonshire, England, is a house of 18th century origins. In 1907 it was bought by F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead as his country home. Smith subsequently purchased another cottage on M…

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