So you are thinking of moving to Ascot in Berkshire? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Ascot is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Ascot the land of milk and honey or are Bracknell, Windsor and Egham a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Ascot
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Ascot. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Chavey Down | 38 |
| Ascot | 13 |
| Brookside | 13 |
| Blacknest | 6 |
| Tittenhurst | 6 |
| South Ascot | 6 |
| Cheapside | 3 |
| Broomhall | 3 |
| Shrubs Hill | 3 |
| Cranbourne | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ascot. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Ascot. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Wildridings and Central (Best) | 16190/32845 |
| Old Bracknell | 19242/32845 |
| Harmans Water | 24469/32845 |
| Bullbrook | 25590/32845 |
| Ascot & Sunninghill | 26105/32845 |
| Crown Wood | 27044/32845 |
| Sunningdale & Cheapside | 29307/32845 |
| Ascot | 29884/32845 |
| Warfield Harvest Ride | 32031/32845 |
| Winkfield and Cranbourne (Worst) | 32172/32845 |
Maidenhead - What an absolute dump
Your Health in Ascot
If you are thinking of moving to Ascot, 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 Ascot compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slough | 0.99% | 3.5% | 11.62% | 35.99% | 47.9% |
| Windsor and Maidenhead (Ascot) | 0.75% | 2.68% | 9.85% | 32.22% | 54.51% |
| Bracknell Forest | 0.72% | 2.53% | 10.06% | 34.29% | 52.4% |
| Runnymede | 0.75% | 2.94% | 10.89% | 34.1% | 51.32% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Ascot. 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 Ascot. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Old Bracknell (Best) | 19871/32845 |
| Wildridings and Central | 20356/32845 |
| Bullbrook | 20456/32845 |
| Crown Wood | 22820/32845 |
| Harmans Water | 24731/32845 |
| Ascot | 30422/32845 |
| Ascot & Sunninghill | 30594/32845 |
| Sunningdale & Cheapside | 30973/32845 |
| Winkfield and Cranbourne | 31302/32845 |
| Warfield Harvest Ride (Worst) | 32039/32845 |
Maidenhead: Not fit for a Royal wedding!
Deprivation in Ascot
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 Ascot. 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 |
|---|---|
| Wildridings and Central (Best) | 16645/32845 |
| Old Bracknell | 19113/32845 |
| Bullbrook | 19743/32845 |
| Harmans Water | 21145/32845 |
| Crown Wood | 23917/32845 |
| Winkfield and Cranbourne | 28575/32845 |
| Ascot | 29617/32845 |
| Ascot & Sunninghill | 30489/32845 |
| Warfield Harvest Ride | 30510/32845 |
| Sunningdale & Cheapside (Worst) | 31240/32845 |
Maidenhead – What an absolute dump
Slough, If the Earth needed an enema, this where they’d insert the tube
Reading – what was a fairly nice university town is now a hell hole
Reading – it’s the home of some great characters
Maidenhead is really the poor relative of Slough
Bracknell, If Berkshire needed an enema this is where they’d stick the tube
Bracknell is a dump… need i say more?
Maidenhead: Not fit for a Royal wedding!
Sandhurst, there is nothing to do… really, nothing.