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Horringer

Horringer is a village in Suffolk, England, with a population of around 780. It has around 1 restaurant and café, 9 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Bury St Edmunds, 4.2 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Horringer area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the West Suffolk area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 179,948 residents at roughly 174 people per km².

Council
West Suffolk
County
Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds
Police force
Suffolk
69/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 26th of 294 English council areas — better than 91% of them.

Low crime93
Home affordability60
Affordable rents41
Good schools51
Life expectancy79
Low deprivation58
Employment74
Low council tax70

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 7° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:23

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

2 reported · August 2026

  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Bury St Edmunds Rural South · Suffolk

Local policing priorities

  • Recent reports of Anti-Social Behaviour in Rougham
  • Reducing retail crime. Retain crime remains both a local and national priority.

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

Road safety

288 reported road collisions (2025)

85 killed or seriously injured · 373 casualties · 16 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

44 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Bury St Edmunds (4.2 km)
  • 9 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Bury St Edmunds (4.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£295,860 average▼ 0.5% YoY

Across West Suffolk · to 2026-08

Detached£449,670
Semi-detached£280,776
Terraced£231,512
Flat£145,376

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,183 average monthly rent▲ 4.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £818
  • 2 bed £1,061
  • 3 bed £1,320

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

Affordability

7.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.7 times median annual pay (8.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,544 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Asda (3.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 190.9p · Asda (3.3 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

30 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Bannatyne Bury St Edmunds (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Gyms1
  • Swimming pools3
  • Sports pitches5
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

179,948 residents in West Suffolk · 174/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,255
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,232
  • Net moves+1,023

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

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 172 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,351 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (34% of 84,240)

A £1,568
B £1,829
C £2,090
D £2,351
E £2,874
F £3,397
G £3,919
H £4,703

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

Schools

82 schools · 24,787 pupils

53 primary · 11 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 40 of 45 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Bury St Edmunds County High SchoolGood
  • Newmarket AcademyGood
  • Samuel Ward AcademyGood
  • Stour Valley Community SchoolGood
  • Sybil Andrews AcademyGood
  • Breckland School
  • Castle Manor Academy
  • Ixworth High School
  • King Edward VI CEVC School
  • Mildenhall College Academy
  • St Benedict's Catholic School

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

Care & health services

692 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes197
  • GP practices92
  • Dentists135
  • Homecare agencies208
  • Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Suffolk

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

260 applications decided

95% granted · 247 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Nick Timothy

Conservative

West Suffolk

Recent votes:

  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 21

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour / Independent / Green / Liberal Democrat coalition

  • Lab 15
  • Con 24
  • LD 1
  • Grn 2
  • Ref 3
  • Oth 19

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • Parks & greens18
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

9,700 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

17 jobs advertised · £38,227 avg

e.g. Team Leader Care, Band 5 Mental Health Nurse DIST, Class Teacher

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£755 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,636 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 94,014 certificates

10.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

61% low-carbon electricity

Gas 38% · Wind 36% · Nuclear 17% · Biomass 9%

159 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Suffolk): 61.7 women · 62.1 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.6
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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

Health services

0 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in IP29

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in West Suffolk:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Horringer · 0.1 km

    Horringer, formerly also called Horningsheath, is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It lies on the A143 about two miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The populatio…

  • Ickworth · 0.8 km

    Ickworth is a small civil parish, almost coextensive with the estate of the National Trust's Ickworth House, in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, eastern England, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-west of Bury St Edmunds.…

  • Ickworth House · 1.2 km

    Ickworth House is a country house at Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England. It is a neoclassical building set in parkland. The house was the residence of the Marquesses of Bristol until 1998; the house wa…

  • Horringer Court Caves · 1.4 km

    Horringer Court Caves is a 3.8-hectare (9.4-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

  • Little Horringer Hall · 1.4 km

    Little Horringer Hall is a Grade II-listed house in Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

  • St Mary's Church, Ickworth · 1.6 km

    Ickworth Church is a former parish church in Ickworth Park near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Horringer?
Horringer is a town in Suffolk, England, in the West Suffolk local authority.
What is the population of Horringer?
Horringer has an approximate settlement population of 780.
How deprived is Horringer?
The West Suffolk local authority, which includes Horringer, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.