Toward

13°COvercast

• Today: 14° / 12° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 14° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:46Sunset 19:45

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

33US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Inverclyde Greenock A8, United Kingdom

97 reported road collisions (2024)

51 killed or seriously injured · 146 casualties · 11.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

3 food businesses within 2 miles

• 1 passed
• 0 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Wemyss Bay (6.4 km)
• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£179,020 average▼ 3.7% YoY

Across Argyll and Bute · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

3 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Guildford Square (5.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

87,310 residents in Argyll and Bute

• Under 16: 14%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

5% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 10% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

SNP / Liberal Democrat / Independent / Labour / Green coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 6
• LD 4
• Ref 2
• Oth 13

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,875 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£726 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,370 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.6

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership331 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s305 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Reduce VAT on hospitality to 10%: protect jobs, communities & UK competitiveness297 local signatures · 15,803 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office231 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers191 local signatures · 13,788 nationwide

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

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  Toward · 0.5 km

  Toward is a village near Dunoon, west of Scotland, in the south of the Cowal Peninsula.

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  Toward Point Lighthouse · 1.0 km

  Toward Point Lighthouse is situated in the south of the Cowal Peninsula, near the village of Toward, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It marks the point where Loch Striven meets the Firth of Clyde. There has been a lighthou…

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  Castle Toward · 1.5 km

  Castle Toward is a nineteenth-century country house in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

• SS Wallachia · 2.4 km

  The Wallachia was a cargo steamer wrecked in the Firth of Clyde in 1895 after a collision with the Norwegian steamship Flos. It was rediscovered in 1977 by hobby divers. Its cargo included a large consignment of bottl…

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  Ardyne Point · 3.4 km

  Ardyne Point is a headland on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies to the south of the town of Dunoon and to the west of the village of Toward.

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  Innellan · 3.8 km

  Innellan is a village in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the western shore of the Firth of Clyde. It is four miles south of Dunoon.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)