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Hookwood

Hookwood is a village in West Sussex, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has 1 pharmacy, 1 supermarket, and 31 restaurants and cafés, along with 18 bus stops and Gatwick Airport railway station 1.5 km away. There were around 176 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Hookwood area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Crawley area is around the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 118,493 residents at roughly 2,635 people per km².

Council
Crawley
County
West Sussex
Constituency
Crawley
Police force
Sussex
38/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 245th of 294 English council areas — better than 17% of them.

Low crime7
Home affordability47
Affordable rents27
Good schools66
Life expectancy43
Low deprivation43
Employment22
Low council tax56

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

19°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 22° / 14° · 46% rain
  • Tomorrow: 24° / 13° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:26

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Lambeth - Streatham Green, United Kingdom

Crime

175 reported · July 2026 11% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences54
  • Possession of weapons40
  • Shoplifting19
  • Anti-social behaviour17

8 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Dorking Rural East · Surrey

Local policing priorities

  • Tackling Rural Retail crime
  • Rural Burglaries

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

248 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 205 rated 4–5 ★ (172 top)
  • 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Horley (2.0 km)
  • 23 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Horley (1.9 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£338,311 average 4.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-06

Detached£677,491
Semi-detached£433,544
Terraced£348,233
Flat£215,038

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 152.9p · Esso (9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Esso (9 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

45 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Tesco Extra-Gatwick (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Swimming pools7
  • Sports pitches29
  • Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

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

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

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

Council tax

£2,418 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,612
B £1,881
C £2,150
D £2,418
E £2,956
F £3,493
G £4,031
H £4,837

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Hazelwick SchoolOutstanding
  • Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, CrawleyGood
  • Thomas Bennett Community CollegeGood
  • Ifield Community College
  • Oriel High School
  • St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, Crawley

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Crawley

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

54 applications decided

87% granted · 47 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Chris Coghlan

Liberal Democrat

Dorking and Horley

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • AyeHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 21
  • Con 4
  • Ref 11

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens65
  • Restaurants & cafés18

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

73 jobs advertised · £44,376 avg

e.g. Property Manager, Nursery Nurse/Room Leader, Occupational Therapist

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

14% low-carbon electricity

Imports 64% · Gas 22% · Solar 12% · Wind 2%

146 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • 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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dorking and Horley:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Horley Town F.C. · 0.9 km

    Horley Town Football Club is a football club based in Horley, Surrey, England. They are currently members of the Isthmian League South East Division and play at the New Defence.

  • Gatwick Stream · 1.0 km

    The Gatwick Stream is a tributary of the River Mole in southern England. The Gatwick Stream rises in Worth Forest below Clays lake in West Sussex, flows northwards through Tilgate Forest, alongside Tilgate golf course…

  • Charlwood House · 1.2 km

    Charlwood House is an early 17th-century timber-framed country house in Lowfield Heath, Crawley, West Sussex, England. It is a Grade II* listed building which is used as a nursery school.

  • Horley · 1.3 km

    Horley is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England, south of the towns of Reigate and Redhill. The county border with West Sussex is to the south with Crawley and Gatwick Airport close to the t…

  • Gatwick Racecourse · 1.8 km

    Gatwick Racecourse was a racecourse in the county of Surrey, England near to Horley and Lowfield Heath. It was in use from 1891 to 1940 when it was closed at the start of the Second World War. The land is now part of…

  • Archway Theatre · 1.9 km

    The Archway Theatre is a unique amateur theatre based in Horley, Surrey, United Kingdom. It is operated by a membership organisation, the Archway Theatre Company. It consists of a 95 seat main auditorium and a 40 seat…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Hookwood?
Hookwood is a town in West Sussex, England, in the Crawley local authority.
How deprived is Hookwood?
The Crawley local authority, which includes Hookwood, is around the average in England on the IoD2019.