Moving to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire? 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 Aylesbury 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 Aylesbury the land of milk and honey or are Princes Risborough, Wendover and Tring a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Aylesbury

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 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.

Polcing Area	Voilent Crimes
Manor Park	127
Walton	120
Aylesbury	95
Bierton	57
Walton Court	47
Southcourt	47
Broughton	31
Bedgrove	31
Burcott	27
Hartwell	1

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

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

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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;

Local Authority	Very Bad	Bad	Fair	Good	Very Good
Aylesbury Vale (Aylesbury)	0.78%	2.68%	10.95%	34.19%	51.4%
Cherwell	0.84%	3%	11.17%	34.65%	50.33%
South Oxfordshire	0.73%	2.62%	10.73%	33.35%	52.56%
Chiltern	0.7%	2.52%	10.18%	32.78%	53.81%

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

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

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