Abinger Common

18°CClear

• Today: 23° / 12° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:25

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Teddington Bushy Park, United Kingdom

8 reported · July 2026▲ 300% YoY

• Burglary3
• Violence & sexual offences3
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Public order1

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Dorking Rural West · Surrey

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

197 reported road collisions (2024)

63 killed or seriously injured · 246 casualties · 22.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

16 food businesses within 2 miles

• 13 rated 4–5 ★ (12 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Gomshall (3.7 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£540,160 average▲ 0.7% YoY

Across Mole Valley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,548 average monthly rent▲ 1.8% YoY

• 1 bed £1,137
• 2 bed £1,453
• 3 bed £1,852

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

11.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.6 times median annual pay (10.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (6.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Valero (7.9 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

14 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Finn-Ruth (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools16
• Sports pitches23
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Test· 29 Nov 2024
• test· 8 Feb 2024
• Houses in Multiple Occupation· 8 Jan 2024
• Cllr Bridget Kendrick· 14 Jun 2023
• Cllr Keira Vyvyan-Robinson· 22 Feb 2023

Source: Mole Valley Council

87,386 residents in Mole Valley · 338/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 294 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,520 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (21% of 39,780)

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

42 schools · 14,008 pupils

23 primary · 4 secondary · 15 other

Ofsted: 10 of 10 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

31inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Mole Valley

1,391 CQC-registered services

• Care homes390
• GP practices202
• Dentists356
• Homecare agencies296
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Surrey

• Within the Green Belt
• 32 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

165 applications decided

73.3% granted · 121 granted, 44 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Chris Coghlan

Liberal Democrat

Dorking and Horley

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 2
• LD 31
• Oth 6

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

• Schools3
• Parks & greens105
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,710 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

6 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Physics Tutoring Job in Abinger Common – Flexible Schedule, Online Physics Tutor - Part Time, Online Drums Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£837 median full-time weekly pay

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

£40,280 disposable income per head (2024)

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

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 38,901 certificates

8.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

66% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Imports 23% · Solar 11% · Gas 11%

58 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82.4 yrs men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile8.5
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

1 GP surgery · 2 pharmacies in RH5

• Leith Hill Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dorking and Horley:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership382 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s346 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership332 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office311 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test310 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Goddards · 0.1 km

  Goddards is a Grade II*-listed house in Abinger Common, Surrey, England, completed in 1900. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and the west-facing courtyard garden was desig…

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  Abinger Common War Memorial · 0.5 km

  Abinger Common War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Abinger Common in Surrey, south-eastern England. The memorial was destroyed by a German bomb during the Second World War and rebuilt in the l…

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  St James's Church, Abinger Common · 0.6 km

  St James's Church stands on Abinger Lane in Abinger Common, a small village within the civil parish of Abinger in Surrey, south-eastern England. The church was built in the early 12th century and then rebuilt around 1…

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  Abinger · 0.7 km

  Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

• Woodhouse Copse, Holmbury St Mary · 1.0 km

  Woodhouse Copse is an Arts and Crafts style house in the village of Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England. It is a Grade II listed building, with gardens originally planted by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Country hous…

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  Friday Street · 1.0 km

  Friday Street is a hamlet on the gentle lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England. It is in a wooded headwater ravine, just to the south of Wotton and the A25, a single rather than dual carriageway road, runn…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)