Worthing

19°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 19° / 17° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 19° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:24

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

640 reported · July 2026▲ 15% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences190
• Anti-social behaviour145
• Shoplifting121
• Public order44

18 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Worthing Central · Sussex

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

193 reported road collisions (2024)

53 killed or seriously injured · 226 casualties · 17.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 426 rated 4–5 ★ (348 top)
• 26 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Worthing (0.1 km)
• 57 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£296,227 average▼ 5.1% YoY

Across Worthing · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,303 average monthly rent

• 1 bed £894
• 2 bed £1,187
• 3 bed £1,433

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

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (8.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · BP (11.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · ESSO (2.5 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

31 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Victoria Road, Broadwater 1 (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres5
• Gyms7
• Swimming pools9
• Sports pitches35
• Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

111,338 residents in Worthing · 3,424/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 174 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,456 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 51,970)

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

36 schools · 15,596 pupils

21 primary · 6 secondary · 9 other

Ofsted: 11 of 15 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (73%)

29inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Worthing

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
• 158 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

136 applications decided

84.6% granted · 115 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Dr Beccy Cooper

Labour

Worthing West

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 15
• Con 6
• LD 1
• Grn 8
• Ref 5
• Oth 2

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

• Schools19
• GPs & clinics13
• Pharmacies8
• Supermarkets17
• Parks & greens38
• Restaurants & cafés236

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,680 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

748 jobs advertised · £36,522 avg

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

Source: Adzuna

£724 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,736 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 56,637 certificates

10.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

51% low-carbon electricity

Wind 39% · Imports 32% · Gas 17% · Nuclear 7%

86 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.2 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.0
• Feeling worthwhile7.2
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Worthing West:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership443 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership409 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office317 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s314 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases308 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Worthing railway station · 0.1 km

  Worthing railway station is the largest of the five stations serving the town of Worthing in West Sussex, the other stations being East Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea. It is 10 miles 46 c…

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  Teville Gate · 0.1 km

  Teville Gate is a construction site and car park in Worthing, West Sussex, England. Covering about 1.4 hectares the site lies at the main entrance to the town centre of Worthing for both rail, via Worthing railway sta…

• Teville Stream · 0.1 km

  The Teville Stream is a stream which flows through the town of Worthing in West Sussex. Once significantly wider than the current stream, it is now culverted for much of its length.

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  St Andrew the Apostle Church, Worthing · 0.3 km

  St Andrew the Apostle is an Anglican church in Worthing, West Sussex, England. Built between 1885 and 1886 in the Early English Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield, "one of the last great Gothic revivalists", the chu…

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  Worthing Town Hall · 0.4 km

  Worthing Town Hall, or New Town Hall, is a municipal building in Chapel Road, Worthing, West Sussex, England. The town hall, which is a meeting place of Worthing Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building. Located…

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  Elizabeth Almshouses, Worthing · 0.4 km

  The Elizabeth Almshouses are a collection of four almshouses on Elizabeth Road, Worthing built in 1860 by the architect William Burges. The almshouses were paid for by William's father, Alfred Burges, in memory of Alf…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)