East Grimstead

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 21° / 16° · 86% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 15° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:27

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chilbolton Observatory, United Kingdom

4 reported · July 2026▲ 300% YoY

• Criminal damage & arson3
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Alderbury and Laverstock · Wiltshire

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

880 reported road collisions (2024)

172 killed or seriously injured · 1,180 casualties · 17.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

3 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Dean (3.3 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£328,908 average▲ 2.7% YoY

Across Wiltshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,072 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

• 1 bed £743
• 2 bed £964
• 3 bed £1,209

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

8.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.8 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 168.9p · Asda (7.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Asda (7.4 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

13 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: The King's Head (4.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

510,333 residents in Wiltshire · 157/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 231 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,572 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 233,060)

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

268 schools · 74,579 pupils

201 primary · 28 secondary · 39 other

Ofsted: 106 of 128 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (83%)

235inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wiltshire

514 CQC-registered services

• Care homes163
• GP practices61
• Dentists98
• Homecare agencies152
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wiltshire

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

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

832 applications decided

92.2% granted · 767 granted, 65 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

John Glen

Conservative

Salisbury

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 38
• LD 43
• Ref 10
• Oth 6

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

• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

24,755 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2 jobs advertised

e.g. Become a Maths Tutor in East Grimstead – Flexible & Remote, Online Maths Tutoring Job in East Grimstead – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£751 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,404 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 241,404 certificates

9.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

29% low-carbon electricity

Gas 41% · Imports 30% · Solar 18% · Biomass 7%

187 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63.7 women · 63.8 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Salisbury:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases406 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership359 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership357 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s337 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office287 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  East Grimstead · 0.1 km

  East Grimstead is a village in the civil parish of Grimstead, on the River Dun in Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Salisbury. The village has about 70 households and no shops, public houses or schools.

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  Grimstead · 1.1 km

  Grimstead is a civil parish on the River Dun in Wiltshire, England, to the south-east of Salisbury. Its settlements are the villages of East Grimstead and West Grimstead. The 2011 census recorded a parish population o…

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  Farley, Wiltshire · 1.6 km

  Farley is a village in southeast Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Salisbury.

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  Blackmoor Copse · 1.6 km

  Blackmoor Copse is a woodland in southeast Wiltshire, England, managed as a nature reserve by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. The copse lies within Pitton and Farley parish, about 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) east of Salisbury.

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  West Grimstead · 1.9 km

  West Grimstead is a village in the civil parish of Grimstead, on the River Dun in Wiltshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southeast of Salisbury.

• Brickworth Down and Dean Hill · 2.8 km

  Brickworth Down and Dean Hill is a 118.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)