Cray's Pond

7°CClear

• Today: 13° / 5° · 38% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:37

9h 40m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

58US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

15 reported · August 2026▲ 67% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences6
• Anti-social behaviour5
• Bicycle theft1
• Burglary1

Neighbourhood team: Henley · Thames Valley

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

142 reported road collisions (2025)

29 killed or seriously injured · 175 casualties · 9.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

14 food businesses within 2 miles

• 10 rated 4–5 ★ (7 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Howard's Halt (3.1 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£471,427 average▲ 2.2% YoY

Across South Oxfordshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,402 average monthly rent▲ 3.5% YoY

• 1 bed £1,042
• 2 bed £1,292
• 3 bed £1,615

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

10.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.0 times median annual pay (10.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,943 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: 156.9p · BP (9.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (9.3 km)

8 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: Castrol (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools10
• Sports pitches5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

149,082 residents in South Oxfordshire · 220/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,385
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,362
• Net moves+2,023

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

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 287 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,598 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 67,120)

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

85 schools · 25,829 pupils

57 primary · 9 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 22 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

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

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

672 CQC-registered services

• Care homes149
• GP practices107
• Dentists167
• Homecare agencies173
• Hospitals & hospices16

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Oxfordshire

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

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

304 applications decided

96.1% granted · 292 granted, 12 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Freddie van Mierlo

Liberal Democrat

Henley and Thame

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 3
• Con 1
• LD 20
• Grn 8
• Oth 4

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,790 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£935 median full-time weekly pay

1.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£35,652 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,091 certificates

9.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

36% low-carbon electricity

Gas 48% · Imports 17% · Solar 14% · Biomass 8%

205 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86.1 yrs women · 82.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Oxfordshire): 66.6 women · 65.4 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

4 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in RG8

• The Boat House Surgery
• Goring & Woodcote Medical Practice
• North And West Reading Hub

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Henley and Thame:

• Stop plans to use MoD sites for asylum seekers without full local consultation578 local signatures · 23,862 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks430 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases301 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND228 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Ensure new sewage treatment infrastructure meets higher standards as in the EU228 local signatures · 48,100 nationwide

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

• Crays Pond · 0.0 km

  Crays Pond is a hamlet situated in the parish of Goring Heath in South Oxfordshire. Crays Pond is about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) northeast of Goring-on-Thames and about 7.0 miles (11.3 km) northwest of Reading, Berkshire.

• The Oratory Preparatory School · 0.6 km

  The Oratory Prep School is a Catholic day and boarding school for some 330 boys and girls aged from two to thirteen, founded in 1925.

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  Goring Heath · 1.0 km

  Goring Heath is a hamlet and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. The civil parish includes the villages of Whitchurch Hill and Crays Pond and some small hamlets. Goring Heath is centred 3 miles (4…

• Goring Rural District · 1.3 km

  Goring was a rural district in Oxfordshire, England from 1894 to 1932.

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  Whitchurch Hill · 1.3 km

  Whitchurch Hill is a village in the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire, about 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of Reading, Berkshire, near Whitchurch-on-Thames. The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was d…

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  Elvendon · 1.5 km

  Elvendon is a small settlement in Oxfordshire and the Chiltern Hills, near Goring. It includes the grade II listed building Elvendon Priory.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)