United Kingdom · South East · Local Authority
Elmbridge
Non-metropolitan district · South East, England · population ~137k · 37 state-funded schools
High earnings meet eye-watering property prices. Elmbridge offers the highest median weekly earnings in the South East at £970.30, but the median house price is a staggering £650,000, a multiple of 12.9 times annual pay. Rent consumes 43.6% of gross median earnings, a share higher than all but one authority in the region, and council tax is also above the South East median. While recorded crime is below the regional average and deprivation is the lowest in the South East, this is a place for those with substantial savings or very high incomes, rather than a starter home market.
Written from the indicators on this page, 2026-08 data.
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How Elmbridge ranks across 361 UK Local Authorities
Pay
£50,456/yr
Very high
Better than 97% of UK LAs
House price
£650,000
Very expensive
Worse than 98% of UK LAs
Rent
£1,832/mo
Very expensive
Worse than 93% of UK LAs
Council tax
£2,558/yr
Most expensive
Worse than 82% of UK LAs
Crime
51.2/1k
Safest
Better than 87% of UK LAs
Deprivation
7.9
Least deprived
Better than 98% of UK LAs
Schools
100.0%
Very strong
Better than 96% of UK LAs
Colour shows quintile position against 361 UK Local Authorities. Green is the best position for someone moving here; red is the worst. Direction is set per indicator — higher pay, lower rent, less crime, less deprivation are all green.
Schools
36 state-funded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026
36 of 36 (100%) rated Good or Outstanding under Ofsted's legacy framework. How we count →
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37 schools · pins coloured by Ofsted grade
Grades, phase and pupil numbers for all 37 schools, sortable and filterable.
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Commute times · GP appointment availability · broadband speeds · air quality at LA level · green-space proximity · public transport coverage. These matter for a relocation decision. We'll add them when the source data is reliable nationally and consistent across LA boundaries.