Clapham (Arun)

19°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 20° / 18° · 81% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 19° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:22

12h 50m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

4 reported · July 2026▼ 20% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Other crime1

Neighbourhood team: Clapham and Findon · Sussex

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

293 reported road collisions (2024)

99 killed or seriously injured · 406 casualties · 17.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

88 food businesses within 2 miles

• 72 rated 4–5 ★ (67 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Goring-by-Sea (3.3 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£321,927 average▲ 3.1% YoY

Across Arun · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,227 average monthly rent▲ 3.1% YoY

• 1 bed £847
• 2 bed £1,137
• 3 bed £1,391

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

10.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.9 times median annual pay (10.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · BP (6.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Asda (3.1 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

32 charging locations within ~8 km

• 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Extra-West Durrington (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches7
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

164,889 residents in Arun · 746/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 56%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 149 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,487 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 79,740)

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

46 schools · 18,474 pupils

35 primary · 6 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 16 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

43inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Arun

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

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

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

178 applications decided

88.2% granted · 157 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Dr Beccy Cooper

Labour

Worthing West

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Labour / Green / Independent coalition

• Lab 8
• Con 19
• LD 14
• Grn 5
• Ref 2
• Oth 6

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

• Schools1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,340 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£706 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,424 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 · 85,840 certificates

9.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

9% low-carbon electricity

Imports 67% · Gas 24% · Wind 7% · Solar 1%

156 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 79.2 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Worthing West:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership443 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership409 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office317 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s314 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases308 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Clapham, West Sussex · 0.2 km

  Clapham is a rural village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on varying downslopes and escarpment of the South Downs National Park three miles (5 km) north of Angmering on the A280…

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  Patching · 0.8 km

  Patching is a small village and civil parish that lies amid the fields and woods of the southern slopes of the South Downs in the National Park in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It has a visible hill-worki…

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  Worthing West · 0.8 km

  Worthing West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Beccy Cooper of the Labour Party. She defeated the long serving incumbent Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative who…

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  Clapham Wood · 0.8 km

  Clapham Wood is a woodland area in the South Downs National Park near the village of Clapham, West Sussex, England. It is a designated Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI) composed of ancient, semi-natural wood…

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  Angmering & Findon (electoral division) · 0.9 km

  Angmering & Findon is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council. The current County Councillor, Deborah Urquhart, is also Cabinet Member for…

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  Castle Goring · 1.0 km

  Castle Goring is a country house in Worthing, in West Sussex, England about 4.5 miles north-west of the town centre.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)