Croydon

16°CMist

• Today: 22° / 13° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:24

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

70US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wandsworth - Lavender Hill (Clapham Jct), United Kingdom

93 reported · July 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences42
• Anti-social behaviour18
• Vehicle crime8
• Other theft6

9 stop & searches · mostly stolen goods

Neighbourhood team: Chipstead, Lower Kingswood, Hooley & Netherne · Surrey

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

292 reported road collisions (2024)

70 killed or seriously injured · 371 casualties · 19.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

229 food businesses within 2 miles

• 193 rated 4–5 ★ (146 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Woodmansterne (0.6 km)
• 25 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£480,481 average▲ 0.4% YoY

Across Reigate and Banstead · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,637 average monthly rent▲ 1.8% YoY

• 1 bed £1,140
• 2 bed £1,480
• 3 bed £1,815

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

11.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.1 times median annual pay (10.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · Esso (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)

36 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 28 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Vincent Road (0.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches37
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

150,846 residents in Reigate and Banstead · 1,168/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 276 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,567 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (28% of 64,920)

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

61 schools · 23,894 pupils

35 primary · 6 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 23 of 24 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

47inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Reigate and Banstead

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
• 11 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

198 applications decided

88.4% granted · 175 granted, 23 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Rebecca Paul

Conservative

Reigate

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Con 16
• LD 4
• Grn 15
• Oth 10

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens14
• Restaurants & cafés21

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,760 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2,358 jobs advertised · £41,598 avg

e.g. General Manager - New Club Opening - Croydon, Head Coach - New Club Opening - Croydon, Retail Advisor

Source: Adzuna

£919 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£33,851 disposable income per head (2024)

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

51% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 71,500 certificates

7.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

33% low-carbon electricity

Imports 52% · Wind 28% · Gas 14% · Nuclear 4%

98 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 82.5 yrs men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Reigate:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership363 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s346 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office325 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test309 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership255 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Chipstead, Surrey · 0.2 km

  Chipstead is a predominantly commuter village in the Reigate and Banstead district, in north-east Surrey, England, that has been a small ecclesiastical parish since the Domesday Survey of 1086. Its rolling landscape m…

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  Woodmansterne railway station · 0.6 km

  Woodmansterne railway station is a railway station which primarily serves the western areas of Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon, England. Situated on the Tattenham Corner line, it is 17 miles 40 chains (28.2…

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  Cane Hill Hospital · 0.9 km

  Cane Hill Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. The hospital motto was "Aversos compono animos". The hospital was built in the 1880s, but from the 1960s its use was starting…

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  Chipstead railway station · 1.0 km

  Chipstead railway station serves the village of Chipstead in Surrey. It is a late-Victorian station on the Tattenham Corner Line and was opened in 1897. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southern.…

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  Woodmansterne · 1.3 km

  Woodmansterne is a village in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, bordering Greater London, England. It sits on a small plateau of and a southern down slope of the North Downs and its ecclesiastical parish bo…

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  Ruffett and Big Woods · 1.4 km

  Ruffett Wood and Big Wood are adjoining woods with a total area of 7 hectares on the border of the London Borough of Sutton, close to the village of Woodmansterne. Big Wood is to the south and Ruffett Wood is to the n…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)