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Living in West Molesey with children

West Molesey, Surrey. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 47,144 people in 18,495 households; 36.0% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).

2schools in West Molesey
£822ktypical semi, 12 months
46crimes a year per 1,000 people
93%gigabit broadband

Schools

2 schools: 2 state primary, 0 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Surrey 66%ResultOfsted
1Hurst Park Primary AcademyPrimary · (119/222) · 66%Good
2Chandlers Field Primary AcademyPrimary · (200/222) · 52%Good
Every school in West Molesey, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (2)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Hurst Park Primary AcademyGood(119/222) in Surrey1.627 miles (2026)
Chandlers Field Primary AcademyGood(200/222) in Surrey—

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)
Detached£1,161,000
Semi-detached£822,000
Terraced£602,000
Flat or maisonette£382,000

The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (125 detached, 155 semi-detached, 106 terraced, 134 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of West Molesey. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
3railway stations within 2 km: Hinchley Wood Rail Station (0.4 miles); Thames Ditton Rail Station (0.6 miles); Esher Rail Station (0.7 miles)
26bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 93% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 395 postcodes in KT8. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
46.2 a year per 1,000 peopleCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. The most common: violent crime, anti social behaviour, other theft. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 3FloodAt the town centre, the area is in flood zone 3 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning. Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 13.1AirAt the town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 13.1 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 7.8 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 12.0 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
2registered nurseries and pre-schools
unknownnone of their fees is held yet

What Ofsted found: 1 good, or expected standard; 1 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £8.63 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 2 in Surrey.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

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Key dates, Surrey

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Reception applications open2 Nov 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Surrey.

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