Hopton on Sea

19°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 15° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:20Sunset 19:17

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

27 reported · July 2026▲ 35% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour8
• Shoplifting6
• Violence & sexual offences6
• Criminal damage & arson2

Neighbourhood team: Gunton, Oulton and Lothingland · Suffolk

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

328 reported road collisions (2024)

105 killed or seriously injured · 419 casualties · 13.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

44 food businesses within 2 miles

• 41 rated 4–5 ★ (34 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Pleasurewood Hills (3.2 km)
• 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£278,376 average▲ 1.2% YoY

Across East Suffolk · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£840 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £602
• 2 bed £791
• 3 bed £938

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 (7.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 163.9p · Morrisons (10 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · ESSO (7.6 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

23 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Beacon Innovation Centre (2.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches11
• Golf courses3
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

246,058 residents in East Suffolk · 195/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 56%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 158 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,335 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 122,720)

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

114 schools · 31,855 pupils

84 primary · 12 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 48 of 56 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

101inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · East Suffolk

691 CQC-registered services

• Care homes196
• GP practices91
• Dentists136
• Homecare agencies209
• Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 11 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Suffolk

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

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

436 applications decided

92.7% granted · 404 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain

Great Yarmouth

Source: UK Parliament

Green / Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 11
• Con 15
• LD 9
• Grn 16
• Oth 4

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

• Schools1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,080 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£734 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,540 disposable income per head (2024)

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

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 129,067 certificates

11.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

92% low-carbon electricity

Wind 46% · Solar 28% · Nuclear 16% · Gas 8%

33 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Great Yarmouth:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office487 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases475 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth365 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership306 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s299 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

• Potters Resorts · 0.4 km

  Potters Resorts is a short breaks holiday company in the United Kingdom, operating two five-star resorts in Norfolk and Essex. The company has been privately owned by the Potter Family since opening its first location…

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  Hopton-on-Sea · 0.7 km

  Hopton-on-Sea is a village, civil parish and seaside resort on the coast of East Anglia, in the Great Yarmouth district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located 4 miles (6 km) south of Great Yarmouth and 5 mi…

• Hopton-on-Sea railway station · 0.9 km

  Hopton-on-Sea was a railway station serving the village of Hopton-on-Sea, in Norfolk, England. It was a stop on the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway line between Yarmouth Beach and Lowestoft. It opened in 1903 and cl…

• Newton, Norfolk · 1.2 km

  Newton was a village on the north-east coast of the English county of Suffolk. The village, which would have been in Norfolk since 1974, is now lost to coastal erosion.

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  Bytham River · 1.5 km

  The Bytham River was one of the great Pleistocene rivers of central and eastern England until it was destroyed by the advancing ice sheets of the Anglian Glaciation around 450,000 years ago. The river is named after C…

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  Lound Lakes · 2.1 km

  Lound Lakes is a 113 hectares nature reserve and series of reservoirs on the border between the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Gorleston-on-Sea, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-we…

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