Is Wendover, Buckinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is Wendover a nice place to live or is Wendover rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Wendover 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 Wendover truly a nice place to live, or are Aylesbury, Princes Risborough and Tring a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Wendover?

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 Wendover. 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 AreaVoilent Crimes
Aston Clinton10
Halton7
Bye Green6
North Lee3
Terrick3
Butler’s Cross2
Coombe2
Bucklandwharf1
Little London near Wendover0
Dunsmore0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wendover. 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 Wendover 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 Bedgrove ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Bedgrove (Best)28044/32845
Icknield27548/32845
Wendover & Halton26999/32845
Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon26615/32845
Tring West and Rural25435/32845
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville24677/32845
Tring East21583/32845
Mandeville & Elm Farm21544/32845
Tring Central20115/32845
Walton Court & Hawkslade (Worst)18539/32845
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Your Health in Wendover

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

TownVery BadBad
Aylesbury Vale (Wendover)0.78%2.68%
Wycombe0.78%2.71%
South Oxfordshire0.73%2.62%
Chiltern0.7%2.52%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon (Best)32767/32845
Tring East31749/32845
Bedgrove30408/32845
Icknield30230/32845
Tring West and Rural29773/32845
Wendover & Halton29598/32845
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville28652/32845
Tring Central28326/32845
Mandeville & Elm Farm25671/32845
Walton Court & Hawkslade (Worst)19259/32845
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Deprivation in Wendover

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 Wendover. 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.

WardAverage rank in England
Bedgrove (Best)31414/32845
Tring East30008/32845
Wendover & Halton29164/32845
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville29093/32845
Tring West and Rural27660/32845
Icknield26755/32845
Mandeville & Elm Farm26520/32845
Tring Central26346/32845
Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon25182/32845
Walton Court & Hawkslade (Worst)17889/32845

Average rent in Wendover

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wendover

If you are thinking of moving to Wendover, 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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