Selsey

20°CCloudy

• Today: 21° / 19° · 49% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:21

12h 46m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

101 reported · July 2026▲ 17% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour42
• Violence & sexual offences26
• Public order10
• Criminal damage & arson7

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Selsey North and South · Sussex

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

275 reported road collisions (2024)

79 killed or seriously injured · 383 casualties · 22.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

93 food businesses within 2 miles

• 86 rated 4–5 ★ (83 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 27 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£429,978 average▼ 2.3% YoY

Across Chichester · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,328 average monthly rent▲ 2.8% YoY

• 1 bed £944
• 2 bed £1,217
• 3 bed £1,501

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

• Cheapest petrol: 159.9p · Esso (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Asda (9.9 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: East Street (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms2
• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches17
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds13

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)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 213 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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 · 16,863 pupils

48 primary · 5 secondary · 16 other

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

58inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chichester

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
• 64 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

199 applications decided

85.4% granted · 170 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Jess Brown-Fuller

Liberal Democrat

Chichester

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
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens15
• Restaurants & cafés22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,725 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

29 jobs advertised · £34,532 avg

e.g. Care Assistant - Selsey, Online Biology Tutor - Part Time, Care Assistant

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

27% low-carbon electricity

Gas 54% · Imports 20% · Wind 9% · Solar 7%

229 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.3 yrs 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Chichester:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership438 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership410 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office385 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers348 local signatures · 13,788 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s328 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Selsey · 0.1 km

  Selsey is a seaside town and civil parish, about eight miles (13 km) south of Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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  The Academy, Selsey · 0.2 km

  The Academy Selsey, formerly the Manhood Community College and the Manhood Secondary Modern School, is a small co-educational non-selective academy for 11 to 16-year-old children, in the town of Selsey, on the Manhood…

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  Selsey F.C. · 0.3 km

  Selsey Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Selsey, West Sussex, England. The club is a FA Chartered Standard Community club affiliated to the Sussex County Football Association. The club are cu…

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  Selsey F.C. Women · 0.3 km

  Selsey Women Football Club are a women's association football club based in Selsey, West Sussex, England. They were founded in 2020 as a breakaway club from Chichester City F.C. and were renamed Selsey for the 2023—24…

• Cymenshore · 0.3 km

  Cymenshore was a place in Southern England where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælle of Sussex landed in AD 477 and battled the Britons with his three sons Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa, after the first of who…

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  Selsey Lifeboat Station · 0.9 km

  Selsey Lifeboat Station is located on Kingsway in Selsey, a town approximately eight miles (13 km) south of Chichester, at the southernmost point of the Manhood Peninsula, overlooking the English Channel, in the count…

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