Crawley (Crawley)

9°COvercast

• Today: 10° / 6° · 16% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:30

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

63US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Merton - Merton Road, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

627 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences200
• Anti-social behaviour156
• Public order71
• Shoplifting45

32 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Crawley Town Centre · Sussex

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

211 reported road collisions (2025)

52 killed or seriously injured · 289 casualties · 17.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 406 rated 4–5 ★ (363 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Crawley (0.4 km)
• 66 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£332,097 average▲ 1.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,488 average monthly rent▲ 2.8% YoY

• 1 bed £1,067
• 2 bed £1,385
• 3 bed £1,642

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

1,069 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (11.8 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

45 charging locations within ~8 km

• 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Town Hall Multi-Storey Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms2
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches38
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds23

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,980
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,897
• Net moves−917

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 109 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Crawley

991 CQC-registered services

• Care homes342
• GP practices107
• Dentists220
• Homecare agencies210
• Hospitals & hospices37

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Sussex

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

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

50 applications decided

86% granted · 43 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Peter Lamb

Labour

Crawley

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 21
• Con 4
• Ref 11

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

• Schools14
• GPs & clinics9
• Pharmacies10
• Supermarkets9
• Parks & greens195
• Restaurants & cafés82

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,690 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

1,472 jobs advertised · £39,269 avg

e.g. Occupational Therapist, Driver, SEN / SEND Tutor, West Sussex

Source: Adzuna

£762 median full-time weekly pay

4.7% 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

39% low-carbon electricity

Gas 61% · Wind 30% · Nuclear 6% · Biomass 3%

243 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (West Sussex): 64.5 women · 63.1 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

15 GP surgeries · 14 pharmacies in RH10

• Woodlands&Clerklands Partnership
• Saxonbrook Medical Centre
• Modality Mid Sussex

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Crawley:

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death404 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases264 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth251 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND193 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK153 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• 
  Crawley Town Hall · 0.2 km

  Crawley Town Hall is a municipal structure in The Boulevard, Crawley, West Sussex, England. It was completed in 2023 and serves as the headquarters of Crawley Borough Council.

• Crawley College · 0.2 km

  Crawley College is a further education college in Crawley, West Sussex, England. It forms the Crawley campus of the Chichester College Group, one of the largest providers of further education in the south-east of Engl…

• 
  Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley · 0.3 km

  The Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony is a Roman Catholic church in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. The town's first permanent place of Roman Catholic worship was founded in 1861 next to…

• 
  St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley · 0.3 km

  St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Crawley, West Sussex, England. It is the parish church of Crawley, and is the oldest building in the town centre, dating from the 1250—although many alterations ha…

• 
  Old Punch Bowl · 0.4 km

  The Old Punch Bowl is a medieval timber-framed Wealden hall house on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built in the early 15th century, it was used as a farmhouse by about 1600, p…

• 
  Tree House, Crawley · 0.4 km

  Tree House, also known as The Tree, is a medieval timber-framed house on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is the original manor house of Crawley, and was built in the early 15…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)