Moving to Ascot, Berkshire? What you need to know

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 February 2021 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	40
Tittenhurst	15
Blacknest	14
Brookside	14
Cheapside	9
Broomhall	8
Shrubs Hill	8
Ascot	7
South Ascot	5
Cranbourne	3

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

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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

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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

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