Is Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire a nice place to live?

Is Tenbury Wells a nice place to live or is Tenbury Wells rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Tenbury Wells is on the up an up, it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Tenbury Wells truly a nice place to live, or are Hatfield, Cleobury Mortimer and Ludlow a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Tenbury Wells?

Using the latest Police street crime figures (typically from 3 months ago) we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Tenbury Wells. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
Policing Area Voilent Crimes
Spurtree 8
Boraston 6
Tenbury Wells 4
Kyrewood 4
Burford 4
St Michaels 2
Teme 1
Boraston Dale 1
Knighton on Teme 1
Newnham Bridge 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tenbury Wells. These statistics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've taken the rank average for wards in and around Tenbury Wells and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.

You least likely to be a victim of crime in the Clee ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clee (Best) 30153/32845
Lindridge 29937/32845
Bircher 28478/32845
Ludlow South 27590/32845
Teme Valley 27245/32845
Tenbury 24861/32845
Ludlow North 20931/32845
Leominster North & Rural 20083/32845
Ludlow East 19241/32845
Leominster East (Worst) 12080/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hatfield, take the average new town. Kick it about a bit & remove all the leisure amenities

Your Health in Tenbury Wells

If you are thinking of moving to Tenbury Wells, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how Tenbury Wells compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
South Staffordshire 1.27% 4.1%
Wyre Forest 1.36% 4.64%
Malvern Hills (Tenbury Wells) 1.36% 3.94%
Worcester 1.03% 3.83%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Tenbury Wells. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Tenbury Wells. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Teme Valley (Best) 29564/32845
Lindridge 28857/32845
Clee 28175/32845
Ludlow South 25096/32845
Bircher 23405/32845
Tenbury 22059/32845
Ludlow North 20205/32845
Leominster North & Rural 17831/32845
Ludlow East 16518/32845
Leominster East (Worst) 12370/32845
Reader Opinion:

Harpenden - the smuggest town in the smuggest county

Deprivation in Tenbury Wells

Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around Tenbury Wells. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.

Ward Average rank in England
Bircher (Best) 18585/32845
Ludlow South 17981/32845
Clee 16438/32845
Tenbury 16244/32845
Ludlow North 15985/32845
Ludlow East 15973/32845
Teme Valley 15925/32845
Lindridge 15351/32845
Leominster North & Rural 11875/32845
Leominster East (Worst) 9756/32845

Average rent in Tenbury Wells

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Tenbury Wells are dated September 2021. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit section of Universal Credit, the lower quartile is at the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you'd expect to pay for a rental property and the upper quartile is the average rental cost of the most expensive 25% of properties in Tenbury Wells.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tenbury Wells

If you are thinking of moving to Tenbury Wells, you'll want to know how much you can earn in a job in the town. The government publish regular statistics on gross weekly pay and pay per hour.

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