Is Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire a nice place to live?

Is Upton upon Severn a nice place to live or is Upton upon Severn rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Upton upon Severn 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 Upton upon Severn truly a nice place to live, or are Tewkesbury, Great Malvern and Malvern a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Upton upon Severn?

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 Upton upon Severn. 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
Hanley Castle 1
Church End 1
Ryall 1
Holly Green 1
Tunnel Hill 1
Upper Ham 1
Baughton 1
Newbridge Green 0
Earls Croome 0
Uckinghall 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Upton upon Severn. 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 Upton upon Severn 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 Northway ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Northway (Best) 31478/32845
Tewkesbury East 29859/32845
Ripple 28926/32845
Bredon 28909/32845
Chase 23608/32845
Tewkesbury North & Twyning 22857/32845
Upton and Hanley 21239/32845
Powick 20697/32845
Tewkesbury South 16599/32845
Pickersleigh (Worst) 8142/32845
Reader Opinion:

Tewkesbury, sounds posher than it is.

Your Health in Upton upon Severn

If you are thinking of moving to Upton upon Severn, 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 Upton upon Severn compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Malvern Hills (Upton upon Severn) 1.36% 3.94%
Worcester 1.03% 3.83%
Cheltenham 0.85% 3.14%
Tewkesbury 0.99% 3.3%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Upton upon Severn. 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 Upton upon Severn. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Bredon (Best) 28831/32845
Tewkesbury East 28271/32845
Ripple 24243/32845
Powick 23173/32845
Tewkesbury North & Twyning 20844/32845
Northway 19851/32845
Upton and Hanley 19313/32845
Chase 18192/32845
Tewkesbury South 15025/32845
Pickersleigh (Worst) 13923/32845
Reader Opinion:

Winchcombe: Where Pinot Grigio and Pitch Forks are de rigueur

Deprivation in Upton upon Severn

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 Upton upon Severn. 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
Bredon (Best) 30292/32845
Tewkesbury East 28503/32845
Tewkesbury North & Twyning 22950/32845
Chase 21354/32845
Powick 20654/32845
Northway 19963/32845
Ripple 18069/32845
Tewkesbury South 14458/32845
Upton and Hanley 13177/32845
Pickersleigh (Worst) 7762/32845

Average rent in Upton upon Severn

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Upton upon Severn 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 Upton upon Severn.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Upton upon Severn

If you are thinking of moving to Upton upon Severn, 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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