Is Weybridge a nice place to live or is Weybridge rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Weybridge 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 Weybridge truly a nice place to live, or are Chertsey, Kingston upon Thames and Walton on Thames a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Weybridge?
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 Weybridge. 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 |
|---|---|
| Chertsey Meads | 48 |
| Walton-on-Thames | 46 |
| Ham Moor | 38 |
| Ashley Park | 37 |
| Brooklands | 24 |
| New Haw | 21 |
| Shepperton Green | 15 |
| Shepperton | 15 |
| Lower Halliford | 13 |
| Oatlands Park | 12 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Weybridge. 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 Weybridge and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Oatlands and Burwood Park (Best) | 25584/32845 |
| Ottershaw | 19749/32845 |
| Shepperton Town | 18881/32845 |
| Weybridge Riverside | 17119/32845 |
| New Haw | 17098/32845 |
| Walton South | 16858/32845 |
| Chertsey Riverside | 15052/32845 |
| Walton Central | 14679/32845 |
| Addlestone South | 14281/32845 |
| Addlestone North (Worst) | 14210/32845 |
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Your Health in Weybridge
If you are thinking of moving to Weybridge, 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 Weybridge compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Elmbridge (Weybridge) | 0.66% | 2.46% |
| Spelthorne | 0.87% | 3.23% |
| Woking | 0.77% | 2.62% |
| Runnymede | 0.75% | 2.94% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Weybridge. 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 Weybridge. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Walton Central (Best) | 31644/32845 |
| Oatlands and Burwood Park | 30707/32845 |
| Weybridge Riverside | 29964/32845 |
| Walton South | 29620/32845 |
| Shepperton Town | 26182/32845 |
| Addlestone North | 25449/32845 |
| Ottershaw | 25214/32845 |
| New Haw | 24707/32845 |
| Addlestone South | 23678/32845 |
| Chertsey Riverside (Worst) | 21932/32845 |
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Deprivation in Weybridge
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 Weybridge. 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 |
|---|---|
| Walton Central (Best) | 28998/32845 |
| Weybridge Riverside | 28629/32845 |
| Oatlands and Burwood Park | 28608/32845 |
| Walton South | 27816/32845 |
| Shepperton Town | 25709/32845 |
| Ottershaw | 24699/32845 |
| New Haw | 23873/32845 |
| Addlestone North | 20724/32845 |
| Addlestone South | 20201/32845 |
| Chertsey Riverside (Worst) | 18328/32845 |
Average rent in Weybridge
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Weybridge 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 Weybridge.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Weybridge
If you are thinking of moving to Weybridge, 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.
