Littlehampton

19°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 19° / 16° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 18° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:25

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

369 reported · July 2026▲ 4% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences122
• Anti-social behaviour112
• Public order31
• Shoplifting31

8 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: River · 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)

281 food businesses within 2 miles

• 241 rated 4–5 ★ (209 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Littlehampton (0.4 km)
• 43 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 (3.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · ESSO (9.7 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

17 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: St Martins Car Park (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches18
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds14

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
• 82 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

Alison Griffiths

Conservative

Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

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)

• Schools7
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens42
• Restaurants & cafés71

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,340 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

320 jobs advertised · £35,515 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Deliver with Uber Eats - Sign Up and Start Earning, Market Research Field Interviewer Paid per Shift Car Required

Source: Adzuna

£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

58% low-carbon electricity

Imports 35% · Wind 27% · Solar 26% · Gas 8%

49 gCO₂/kWh · low 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 Bognor Regis and Littlehampton:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership412 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office410 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership376 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s330 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases285 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Littlehampton · 0.2 km

  Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is 52 miles (84 km) south so…

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  Littlehampton Friends Meeting House · 0.2 km

  Littlehampton Friends Meeting House is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) place of worship in the town of Littlehampton, part of the Arun district of West Sussex, England. A Quaker community has worshipped in the…

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  Arun District · 0.4 km

  Arun is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in Littlehampton. The district's other towns are Arundel and Bognor Regis. The district is named after the River Arun, which runs throu…

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  Littlehampton railway station · 0.4 km

  Littlehampton railway station serves the town of Littlehampton, in West Sussex, England. The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern. It is a terminus at the end of a short branch off the West Coast…

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  Littlehampton Lifeboat Station · 0.5 km

  Littlehampton Lifeboat Station is located in the town of Littlehampton, in West Sussex, on the south coast of England. The station is on the harbour side on the eastern bank of the River Arun, a quarter mile from the…

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  Littlehampton Town (electoral division) · 0.5 km

  Littlehampton Town is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)