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Thurrock: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Thurrock Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, East of England. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000034.

Council website

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Thurrock for 2026–27: £1,886.85 of a £2,254.68 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Environment

The council’s climate-emergency motion, in its own words:

“1 Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ that requires urgent action; 1.”

The council's document gives no date for the motion: it shows what the council resolved then, not what it does now. Agenda item - Motion received from Councillor Gerrish | Thurrock Council (Thurrock Council), found through mySociety and Climate Emergency UK, Local authority climate emergency declarations (CC BY 4.0); the sentence was checked word for word on 26 October 2026.

Beyond that document, we haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Education

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 new provision), 0 closed

OA - North View — open; reason recorded: new provision, 24 November 2025

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Thurrock reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Thurrock: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£98.5 million
Highways and transport services	£9.3 million
Children's social care	£63.5 million
Adult social care	£73.6 million
Public health	£18.3 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£16.4 million
Cultural and related services	£6.3 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£21.9 million
Planning and development services	−£771,000
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£12.5 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£319.5 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Life in Thurrock: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Thurrock.

People living here: 181,664 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age: 37 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year: £23,662 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax: £724 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty: 26.9% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits: 4.4% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home: £319,969 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs: 8.5 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women: 58.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men: 58.9 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person: 5.2 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband: 92.8% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars: 114.9 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here: 7,855 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Thurrock from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

49 seats in 2026. Run by: Reform UK, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 45, Labour Party 2, Conservative and Unionist 2.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 49 councillors, by ward

Aiden Prince (Reform UK) — Aveley
Chris Irvine (Reform UK) — Aveley
George Monk (Reform UK) — Aveley
Bogdan Enache (Reform UK) — Belhus
Linda Benson (Reform UK) — Belhus
Tom Kelly (Reform UK) — Belhus
Jack Fuller (Reform UK) — Chadwell St Mary
James Mackintosh (Reform UK) — Chadwell St Mary
Matt Lake (Reform UK) — Chadwell St Mary
Peggy Davies (Reform UK) — Chafford Hundred East
Stephen Davies (Reform UK) — Chafford Hundred East
Oscar Ellis (Reform UK) — Chafford Hundred West
Sue Shinnick (Labour Party) — Chafford Hundred West
Holly Bennett (Reform UK) — Corringham & Fobbing
Ian Croom (Reform UK) — Corringham & Fobbing
Sara Poyntz (Reform UK) — Corringham & Fobbing
Kevin Lawrence (Reform UK) — East Tilbury, Linford & West Tilbury
Michelle Burton (Reform UK) — East Tilbury, Linford & West Tilbury
Catalin-Daniel Farcas (Reform UK) — Grays Riverside
Darren Dennis (Reform UK) — Grays Riverside
Joe Soper (Reform UK) — Grays Riverside
Marc Stanley (Reform UK) — Grays Town
Michael Shakespeare (Reform UK) — Grays Town
Milena Bingley (Reform UK) — Grays Town
Robert Willoughby (Reform UK) — Little Thurrock Blackshots
Steven Pester (Reform UK) — Little Thurrock Blackshots
Eddie Stringer (Reform UK) — Little Thurrock Rectory
Marion Cherry (Reform UK) — Little Thurrock Rectory
Alan Benson (Reform UK) — Ockendon
Jay Varley (Reform UK) — Ockendon
Russell Cherry (Reform UK) — Ockendon
Bill Cook (Reform UK) — Orsett, Horndon & Bulphan
Steve Taylor (Reform UK) — Orsett, Horndon & Bulphan
Aaron Green (Labour Party) — Purfleet-on-Thames
Michelle Heal (Reform UK) — Purfleet-on-Thames
Alex Anderson (Reform UK) — Stanford-le-Hope South
James Poyntz (Reform UK) — Stanford-le-Hope South
Mark Turner (Reform UK) — Stanford-le-Hope South
Bill Mumford (Reform UK) — Stifford
Richard Bingley (Reform UK) — Stifford
James Scarsbrook (Reform UK) — The Homesteads & Stanford-le-Hope North
Joanne Quirk (Reform UK) — The Homesteads & Stanford-le-Hope North
Pam McCabe (Reform UK) — The Homesteads & Stanford-le-Hope North
David Hollenbach (Reform UK) — Tilbury Riverside
Harley Pyman-Brickwood (Reform UK) — Tilbury Riverside
Bailey Scott (Reform UK) — Tilbury St Chads
Shirley Bartlett (Reform UK) — Tilbury St Chads
Elena Pelin (Conservative and Unionist) — West Thurrock & South Stifford
Qaisar Abbas (Conservative and Unionist) — West Thurrock & South Stifford

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.