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Tinsley Green

Tinsley Green is a town or village in West Sussex, England. It has around 5 restaurants and cafés, 10 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Gatwick Airport, 1.8 km away. There were around 70 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 Tinsley Green 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

17°CMist

  • Today: 24° / 17° · 48% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:19

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

7US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Lambeth - Streatham Green, United Kingdom

Crime

76 reported · July 2026 19% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences31
  • Anti-social behaviour17
  • Other theft5
  • Public order5

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Pound Hill · Sussex

Local policing priorities

  • Antisocial Driving - Speeding
  • Antisocial Behaviour (ASB)

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

247 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 212 rated 4–5 ★ (197 top)
  • 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Gatwick Airport (1.8 km)
  • 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Gatwick Airport (1.7 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: 156.9p · Esso (9.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (3.4 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

46 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Nestlé-Gatwick (1.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools6
  • Sports pitches11
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds7

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
  • 14 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

Peter Lamb

Labour

Crawley

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 21
  • Con 4
  • Ref 11

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools3
  • Parks & greens74
  • Restaurants & cafés6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

24 jobs advertised · £30,811 avg

e.g. Team Leader - KFC Gatwick Airport, Housekeeper, Maintenance Planner

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

21% low-carbon electricity

Gas 65% · Imports 14% · Wind 9% · Nuclear 8%

267 gCO₂/kWh · very high 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 Crawley:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Tinsley Green · 0.6 km

    Tinsley Green is an area in the Borough of Crawley, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Originally a hamlet in the parish of Worth, it was absorbed by the New Town of Crawley…

  • Forge Wood · 0.8 km

    Forge Wood is the 14th residential neighbourhood in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex. The 1,900 houses and other facilities will be built on open land in the northeast of the borough, adjoining the ancient v…

  • Pound Hill & Worth (electoral division) · 0.9 km

    Pound Hill & Worth is an electoral division of West Sussex in England, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

  • City Place Gatwick · 1.1 km

    City Place Gatwick is an office complex located on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The complex includes four buildings: The Beehive, an approximately 20,000-square-foot (1,900…

  • Beehive, Gatwick Airport · 1.1 km

    The Beehive is the original terminal building at Gatwick Airport, England. Opened in 1936, it became obsolete in the 1950s as the airport expanded. In 2008 it was converted into serviced offices, operated by Orega, ha…

  • Gatwick Airport Up sidings · 1.2 km

    Gatwick Airport Up sidings are located near London Gatwick Airport, Crawley, England, situated on the Brighton Main Line south of Gatwick Airport station. The sidings are accessed from the Up Platform Loop line.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

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