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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 more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). 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
37/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 249th of 294 English council areas — better than 15% of them.

Low crime8
Home affordability47
Affordable rents27
Good schools66
Life expectancy40
Low deprivation37
Employment20
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

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 36% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:55Sunset 16:33

9h 38m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

87US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Merton - Merton Road, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

59 reported · August 2026▼ 2% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences28
  • Anti-social behaviour11
  • Vehicle crime5
  • Criminal damage & arson3

5 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

211 reported road collisions (2025)

52 killed or seriously injured · 289 casualties · 17.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

253 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 218 rated 4–5 ★ (203 top)
  • 2 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

£332,097 average▲ 1.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-08

Detached£662,949
Semi-detached£424,941
Terraced£342,429
Flat£210,938

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,488 average monthly rent▲ 2.8% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,067
  • 2 bed £1,385
  • 3 bed £1,642

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

Property sales

1,069 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: 156.9p · Esso (9.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (9.3 km)

7 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)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,980
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,897
  • Net moves−917

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 109 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

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%)

34 inspected 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

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

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

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

Planning decisions

50 applications decided

86% granted · 43 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Peter Lamb

Labour

Crawley

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

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

4,690 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

22 jobs advertised · £34,829 avg

e.g. Kitchen Porter, General Manager, Software Developer (all levels) - Distributed Simulation Technology (UK)

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£762 median full-time weekly pay

4.7% 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

51% low-carbon electricity

Wind 39% · Gas 29% · Imports 21% · Nuclear 8%

131 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (West Sussex): 64.5 women · 63.1 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

Health services

15 GP surgeries · 14 pharmacies in RH10

  • Woodlands&Clerklands Partnership
  • Saxonbrook Medical Centre
  • Modality Mid Sussex

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Crawley:

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

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 more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.