So you are thinking of moving to Billericay in Essex? 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 Billericay 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 Billericay the land of milk and honey or are Basildon, Ingatestone and Laindon a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Billericay
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 Billericay. 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 |
|---|---|
| Gooseberry Green | 34 |
| Billericay | 27 |
| Great Burstead | 12 |
| Ramsden Heath | 6 |
| Tye Common | 5 |
| Stock | 2 |
| Little Burstead | 2 |
| Ramsden Bellhouse | 2 |
| Padham’s Green | 1 |
| Buttsbury | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Billericay. 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 Billericay. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Crouch (Best) | 11317/32845 |
| South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting | 12558/32845 |
| Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing | 15060/32845 |
| Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon | 15358/32845 |
| Hutton North | 18442/32845 |
| Hutton East | 19360/32845 |
| Burstead | 19659/32845 |
| Hutton South | 22723/32845 |
| Billericay East | 23755/32845 |
| Billericay West (Worst) | 27006/32845 |
Ode to Basildon
Your Health in Billericay
If you are thinking of moving to Billericay, 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 Billericay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basildon (Billericay) | 1.32% | 4.21% | 13.26% | 34.95% | 46.25% |
| Thurrock | 1.03% | 3.73% | 12.29% | 34.74% | 48.2% |
| Rochford | 0.94% | 3.38% | 13.01% | 34.92% | 47.76% |
| Brentwood | 0.88% | 3.13% | 11.64% | 33.34% | 51.02% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Billericay. 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 Billericay. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Crouch (Best) | 21794/32845 |
| Hutton North | 23280/32845 |
| Billericay West | 25284/32845 |
| Burstead | 26611/32845 |
| Hutton East | 27559/32845 |
| Billericay East | 27939/32845 |
| Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing | 30262/32845 |
| South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting | 31374/32845 |
| Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon | 31376/32845 |
| Hutton South (Worst) | 31765/32845 |
Basildon, a self-contained 'New Town' to clear the slums of East London
Deprivation in Billericay
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 Billericay. 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 |
|---|---|
| Crouch (Best) | 15689/32845 |
| South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting | 19483/32845 |
| Hutton East | 23559/32845 |
| Hutton North | 24322/32845 |
| Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing | 25301/32845 |
| Burstead | 26055/32845 |
| Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon | 28039/32845 |
| Billericay West | 28565/32845 |
| Billericay East | 28855/32845 |
| Hutton South (Worst) | 29449/32845 |
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