Easebourne

7°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 14° / 6° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:55Sunset 16:37

9h 43m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

58US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

• 6.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

13 reported · August 2026▼ 32% YoY

• Shoplifting5
• Anti-social behaviour4
• Bicycle theft1
• Burglary1

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Midhurst and Easebourne · Sussex

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

309 reported road collisions (2025)

96 killed or seriously injured · 439 casualties · 24.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

71 food businesses within 2 miles

• 65 rated 4–5 ★ (63 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Holycombe Junction (7.7 km)
• 33 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£428,364 average▼ 2.7% YoY

Across Chichester · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,333 average monthly rent▲ 2.9% YoY

• 1 bed £947
• 2 bed £1,222
• 3 bed £1,507

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

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

1,580 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: 177.9p · Asda (10.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 202.9p · Asda (10.2 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: South Downs Centre (0.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches11
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds1

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,016
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,486
• Net moves+1,530

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 177 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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 · 16,719 pupils

48 primary · 5 secondary · 16 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chichester

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
• 170 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

206 applications decided

89.3% granted · 184 granted, 22 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Andrew Griffith

Conservative

Arundel and South Downs

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 5
• LD 24
• Grn 2
• Oth 5

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies3
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés18

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,770 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

2 jobs advertised · £28,823 avg

e.g. Cleaning Operatives x 2, Support Worker - Complex Care - West Sussex

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

28% low-carbon electricity

Gas 65% · Biomass 13% · Nuclear 9% · Imports 7%

274 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

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

2 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in GU29

• Riverbank Medical Centre
• Macmillan Palliative Care Service

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Arundel and South Downs:

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death1,230 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks545 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases317 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND212 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills200 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

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  Midhurst Intermediate School · 0.3 km

  Midhurst Intermediate School was a maintained comprehensive middle school for pupils aged 10 to 13. It was one of only 11 schools of its type, and the only school in the United Kingdom to be labelled as 'intermediate'…

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  Midhurst & Easebourne F.C. · 0.3 km

  Midhurst & Easebourne Football Club is a football club based in Midhurst, West Sussex, England. They are currently members of the Southern Combination Premier Division and play at the Rotherfield.

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  Easebourne · 0.3 km

  Easebourne is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is half a mile (0.8 km) north of Midhurst, across the River Rother on the A272 and A286 roads. The paris…

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  Easebourne Priory · 0.4 km

  The Priory of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly known as Easebourne Priory, was founded as a monastery of canonesses regular in the 13th-century in Easebourne, West Sussex, England. It was closed in th…

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  Midhurst Grammar School · 0.8 km

  Midhurst Grammar School was a grammar school and later a comprehensive upper school in Midhurst, West Sussex, England. The school served pupils aged 11 to 18 who usually joined the school from one of the local interme…

• Midhurst Rother College · 0.8 km

  Midhurst Rother College is a coeducational secondary school with academy status for students aged 11 to 19, in Midhurst, West Sussex, in southern England. It was officially formed on 1 January 2009 following the closu…

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