Oak Hill

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• Today: 11° / 10° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:20

9h 26m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, 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▲ 300% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Drugs1
• Public order1

Neighbourhood team: Deben and Orford · Suffolk

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

385 reported road collisions (2025)

109 killed or seriously injured · 496 casualties · 15.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

4 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£277,949 average▼ 2.3% YoY

Across East Suffolk · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£842 average monthly rent▲ 5.1% YoY

• 1 bed £603
• 2 bed £792
• 3 bed £940

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

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

3,524 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

• Swimming pools5
• Sports pitches6
• Playgrounds2

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK12,457
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK10,339
• Net moves+2,118

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 138 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

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

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

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

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

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

472 applications decided

93% granted · 439 granted, 33 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Green / Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

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

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,165 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£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

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Suffolk): 61.7 women · 62.1 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

7 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in IP12

• Woodbridge Medical Centre
• Little St John Street Surgery
• The Peninsula Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Suffolk Coastal:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks397 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases261 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND163 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects163 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills161 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

• HM Prison Hollesley Bay · 0.6 km

  HM Prison Hollesley Bay, known locally as Hollesley Bay Colony or simply The Colony, is a Category D men's prison and Young Offender Institution, located in the village of Hollesley, about 8 miles (13 km) from the tow…

• HM Prison Warren Hill · 0.8 km

  HM Prison Warren Hill is a male prison located near the village of Hollesley in Suffolk, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is situated next to Hollesley Bay Prison.

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  Simpson's Saltings · 1.6 km

  Simpson's Saltings is a 25 hectare nature reserve on the Suffolk coast east of Hollesley. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and part…

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  Hollesley · 1.7 km

  Hollesley is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk east of Ipswich in eastern England. Located on the Bawdsey peninsula five miles south-east of Woodbridge, in 2005 it had a population of…

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  River Alde · 1.9 km

  The River Alde and River Ore form a river system in Suffolk, England passing by Snape and Aldeburgh. The River Alde and River Ore meet northwest of Blaxhall. From there downriver the combined river is known as the Riv…

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  Boyton, Suffolk · 2.2 km

  Boyton is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about eight miles east of Woodbridge, and close to Orford Ness. Boyton is a small village in South East England and is part of the…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)