Burstow

17°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 19° / 17° · 83% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:21

12h 51m 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 Honor Oak Park, United Kingdom

13 reported · July 2026▼ 13% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences6
• Anti-social behaviour3
• Vehicle crime2
• Other theft1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Smallfield, Burstow, Horne and Outwood · Surrey

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

271 reported road collisions (2024)

63 killed or seriously injured · 368 casualties · 22.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

142 food businesses within 2 miles

• 117 rated 4–5 ★ (101 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Gatwick Airport (2.5 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£338,311 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,486 average monthly rent▲ 3.1% YoY

• 1 bed £1,065
• 2 bed £1,384
• 3 bed £1,639

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

8.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.5 times median annual pay (9.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · Esso (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Esso (11.7 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

44 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: GATWICK HOUSE GATWICKHOUSE3 (0.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools9
• Sports pitches21
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

118,493 residents in Crawley · 2,635/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 13%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 136 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,418 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (48% of 47,280)

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

37 schools · 20,758 pupils

25 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 11 of 12 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

34inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Crawley

988 CQC-registered services

• Care homes343
• GP practices106
• Dentists219
• Homecare agencies210
• Hospitals & hospices37

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Sussex

• In a conservation area (BURSTOW)
• Within the Green Belt
• 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

54 applications decided

87% granted · 47 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Labour majority

• Lab 21
• Con 4
• Ref 11

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

• Schools2
• Parks & greens57

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

8 jobs advertised

e.g. Become a Physics Tutor in Burstow – Flexible & Remote, Online Guitar Tutor - Part Time, Online Physics Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£762 median full-time weekly pay

4.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,788 disposable income per head (2024)

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

56% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 45,126 certificates

7.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Surrey:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership382 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test381 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office298 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s288 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership249 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Fernhill, West Sussex · 1.0 km

  Fernhill is a hamlet close to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, England. Its fields and farmhouses formerly straddled the county boundary between Surrey and West Sussex, but since 1990 the whole area has been part of th…

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  Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 · 1.2 km

  Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 was a scheduled international flight involved in an aviation accident on 5 January 1969. The incident involved a Boeing 727 aircraft, carrying 62 individuals, that crashed into a resi…

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  Burstow · 1.7 km

  Burstow is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England. Its largest settlement is Smallfield. Smallfield is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) ENE of Gatwick Airport and the M23 motorway, 7.5 miles (12.1 k…

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  Copthorne, West Sussex · 2.0 km

  Copthorne is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies close to Gatwick Airport, 25.5 miles (41 km) south of London, 21.5 miles (35 km) north of Brighton, and 36 miles (58 km) northeast of…

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  Gatwick Airport railway station · 2.5 km

  Gatwick Airport railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in West Sussex, England. It serves Gatwick Airport, 26 miles 47 chains (42.8 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. The platforms are about 70 me…

• Copthorne Preparatory School · 2.6 km

  Copthorne Preparatory School is an independent preparatory school for children aged between two and eleven near Copthorne in West Sussex, but just over the county boundary in Surrey.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)