Is Aylsham, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Aylsham a nice place to live or is Aylsham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Aylsham 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 Aylsham truly a nice place to live, or are North Walsham, Reepham and Wroxham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Aylsham?

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 Aylsham. 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
Aylsham 16
Millgate 16
Dunkirk 11
Drabblegate 5
Banningham 2
Fengate 0
Marsham 0
Ingworth 0
Tuttington 0
Burgh next Aylsham 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Aylsham. 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 Aylsham 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 Worstead ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Worstead (Best) 31600/32845
Erpingham 30987/32845
Hevingham 30619/32845
Gresham 29980/32845
Aylsham 27591/32845
Great Witchingham 27213/32845
Buxton 24429/32845
Eynesford 14351/32845

Your Health in Aylsham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Great Yarmouth 1.63% 5.48%
North Norfolk 1.39% 4.77%
Broadland (Aylsham) 1.08% 3.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Great Witchingham (Best) 26856/32845
Buxton 23974/32845
Erpingham 23682/32845
Aylsham 23027/32845
Hevingham 21308/32845
Eynesford 21265/32845
Gresham 21081/32845
Worstead 18211/32845

Deprivation in Aylsham

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 Aylsham. 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
Buxton (Best) 21295/32845
Aylsham 20258/32845
Great Witchingham 18049/32845
Hevingham 17268/32845
Worstead 14137/32845
Gresham 13499/32845
Erpingham 12845/32845
Eynesford 12418/32845

Average rent in Aylsham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Aylsham

If you are thinking of moving to Aylsham, 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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