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Liphook

Liphook is a town in West Sussex, England, with a population of around 6,480. It has around 2 schools, around 1 GP surgery, around 1 pharmacy, and around 4 restaurants and cafés, 4 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Liphook, 1 km away. The average sold house price is around £556,717, and there were around 43 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Liphook area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Chichester area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 124,068 residents at roughly 158 people per km².

Council
Chichester
County
West Sussex
Constituency
Chichester
Police force
Sussex
49/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 157th of 294 English council areas — better than 47% of them.

Low crime68
Home affordability9
Affordable rents17
Good schools47
Life expectancy73
Low deprivation60
Employment52
Low council tax40

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

6°CClear

  • Today: 11° / 6° · 12% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:00Sunset 16:32

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

28US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

29 reported · August 2026▼ 9% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences14
  • Other theft4
  • Anti-social behaviour3
  • Public order3

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Longmoor Rural inc. Liphook · Hampshire

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

35 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 30 rated 4–5 ★ (23 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Liphook (0.6 km)
  • 25 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Liphook (0.6 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£428,364 average▼ 2.7% YoY

Across Chichester · to 2026-08

Detached£679,148
Semi-detached£422,502
Terraced£343,374
Flat£216,221

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 174.9p · Asda (11.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · Asda (11.5 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

14 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: SHELL RECHARGE LITTLE WAITROSE LIPHOOK SOUT (1.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches14
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

124,068 residents in Chichester · 158/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

Around the average in England

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,470 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,646
B £1,921
C £2,195
D £2,470
E £3,019
F £3,567
G £4,116
H £4,939

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Bishop Luffa School, ChichesterOutstanding
  • Midhurst Rother CollegeOutstanding
  • Bourne Community CollegeGood
  • Chichester High School
  • The Academy, Selsey

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chichester

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Liphook)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 30 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

206 applications decided

89.3% granted · 184 granted, 22 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Gregory Stafford

Conservative

Farnham and Bordon

Recent votes:

  • NoBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 8: Capital gains tax (business asset disposal relief)
  • NoBudget Resolution No.7: Increase in rate of banking surcharge for temporary period
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 3: Income tax (default, property and savings rates)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 5
  • LD 24
  • Grn 2
  • Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools8
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens5
  • Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,770 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

60 jobs advertised · £33,393 avg

e.g. Kitchen Team Leader, Cleanroom Operative, Night Porter

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

29% low-carbon electricity

Gas 69% · Wind 14% · Biomass 8% · Nuclear 7%

282 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

0 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in GU30

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Farnham and Bordon:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Liphook · 0.1 km

    Liphook is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.1 miles (6.6 km) west of Haslemere, bypassed by the A3 road, and lies on the Hampshire/West Sussex/Surrey borders. It is in the civil…

  • Bohunt School · 0.2 km

    Bohunt School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the rural village of Liphook, Hampshire, England. The school was opened in 1978 by then Secretary of State for Education, Shirley Williams.

  • Liphook railway station · 0.7 km

    Liphook railway station serves the large village of Liphook, in Hampshire, England. It is on the Portsmouth Direct Line, 46 miles 67 chains (75.4 km) down the line from London Waterloo via Woking. The station is manag…

  • Bramshott and Liphook · 1.3 km

    Bramshott and Liphook, formerly just Bramshott is a civil parish in the East Hampshire district, in Hampshire, England, on the main route from London to Portsmouth. Formerly local government was solely in the hands of…

  • Cold Ash Hill · 1.4 km

    Cold Ash Hill is a hamlet in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Nearby settlements include the town of Haslemere and the villages of Liphook, Bramshott and Linchmere and the hamlet of Hammer. For trans…

  • Bramshott · 1.4 km

    Bramshott is a village and parish with mediaeval origins in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It lies 0.9 miles (1.4 km) north of Liphook, and with Liphook forms the civil parish of Bramshott and Liph…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Liphook?
Liphook is a town in West Sussex, England, in the Chichester local authority.
What is the population of Liphook?
Liphook has an approximate settlement population of 6,480.
How deprived is Liphook?
The Chichester local authority, which includes Liphook, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.