Is Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Aylesbury?

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 Aylesbury. 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
Walton 175
Manor Park 164
Aylesbury 141
Bierton 72
Walton Court 68
Southcourt 68
Bedgrove 50
Broughton 49
Burcott 32
Hartwell 3

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Aylesbury. 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 Aylesbury 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.

Ward Average rank in England
Bedgrove (Best) 28044/32845
Watermead 23642/32845
Coldharbour 21878/32845
Mandeville & Elm Farm 21544/32845
Walton Court & Hawkslade 18539/32845
Oakfield & Bierton 18383/32845
Central & Walton 15114/32845
Southcourt 14926/32845
Gatehouse 13814/32845
Elmhurst (Worst) 11737/32845
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Your Health in Aylesbury

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Aylesbury Vale (Aylesbury) 0.78% 2.68%
Cherwell 0.84% 3%
South Oxfordshire 0.73% 2.62%
Chiltern 0.7% 2.52%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Bedgrove (Best) 30408/32845
Watermead 26399/32845
Mandeville & Elm Farm 25671/32845
Central & Walton 25084/32845
Coldharbour 23664/32845
Oakfield & Bierton 22213/32845
Walton Court & Hawkslade 19259/32845
Gatehouse 18555/32845
Elmhurst 17099/32845
Southcourt (Worst) 17074/32845
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Deprivation in Aylesbury

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 Aylesbury. 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
Bedgrove (Best) 31414/32845
Mandeville & Elm Farm 26520/32845
Watermead 25925/32845
Coldharbour 25129/32845
Oakfield & Bierton 23986/32845
Central & Walton 23603/32845
Walton Court & Hawkslade 17889/32845
Gatehouse 15562/32845
Elmhurst 14637/32845
Southcourt (Worst) 11210/32845

Average rent in Aylesbury

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Aylesbury

If you are thinking of moving to Aylesbury, 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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