Chichester

18°CSunny

• Today: 19° / 15° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 18° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:26

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

517 reported · July 2026▲ 31% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences151
• Anti-social behaviour132
• Shoplifting82
• Public order43

16 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Chichester City · Sussex

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

275 reported road collisions (2024)

79 killed or seriously injured · 383 casualties · 22.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

396 food businesses within 2 miles

• 347 rated 4–5 ★ (333 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Chichester (0.6 km)
• 87 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£429,978 average▼ 2.3% YoY

Across Chichester · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,328 average monthly rent▲ 2.8% YoY

• 1 bed £944
• 2 bed £1,217
• 3 bed £1,501

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

12.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.3 times median annual pay (11.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (8.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Asda (6.8 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

21 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: West Sussex Council (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres7
• Gyms3
• Swimming pools8
• Sports pitches66
• Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

124,068 residents in Chichester · 158/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 57%
• 65+: 27%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 213 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,470 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 61,610)

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

69 schools · 16,863 pupils

48 primary · 5 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 22 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

58inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chichester

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 (Chichester)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 511 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

199 applications decided

85.4% granted · 170 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Jess Brown-Fuller

Liberal Democrat

Chichester

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 5
• LD 24
• Grn 2
• Oth 5

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

• Schools13
• GPs & clinics7
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens46
• Restaurants & cafés103

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,725 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1,097 jobs advertised · £38,697 avg

e.g. Principal Combat Systems Engineer, Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Test Equipment Engineer – Electrical & Electronic

Source: Adzuna

£696 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,884 disposable income per head (2024)

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

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 64,800 certificates

11.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

64% low-carbon electricity

Wind 30% · Solar 23% · Imports 19% · Gas 17%

83 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

58% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Chichester:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership438 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership410 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office385 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers348 local signatures · 13,788 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s328 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Chichester District · 0.0 km

  Chichester is a local government district in West Sussex, England. It is named after the city of Chichester, which is its largest settlement and where the council is based. The district includes the towns of Midhurst,…

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  Noviomagus Reginorum · 0.0 km

  Noviomagus Reginorum was Chichester's Roman heart, very little of which survives above ground. It lay in the land of the Atrebates and is in the early medieval-founded English county of West Sussex. On the English Cha…

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  Chichester Cross · 0.1 km

  Chichester Cross is an elaborate Perpendicular market cross in the centre of the city of Chichester, West Sussex, standing 50 feet tall at the intersection of the four principal streets. It is a Grade I listed building.

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  Chichester · 0.1 km

  Chichester is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is the only city in West Sussex and is its county town. In 2021 the parish had a population of 29,407. It was a Ro…

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  Siege of Chichester · 0.1 km

  The siege of Chichester was a victory by Parliamentarian forces led by Colonel William Waller over a small Royalist garrison. The siege was one of the key events in the First English Civil War by Waller to secure sout…

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  Chichester (constituency) · 0.1 km

  Chichester is a constituency in West Sussex, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jess Brown-Fuller, a Liberal Democrat.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)