Is Bletchley, Buckinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is Bletchley a nice place to live or is Bletchley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bletchley 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 Bletchley truly a nice place to live, or are Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes and Woburn Sands a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bletchley?

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 Bletchley. 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
Coffee Hall 130
Beanhill 130
Netherfield 119
Bletchley 90
Walnut Tree 63
Walton 63
Caldecotte 58
Fenny Stratford 55
Water Eaton 41
Bow Brickhill 7

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bletchley. 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 Bletchley 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 Great Brickhill & Newton Longville ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Great Brickhill & Newton Longville (Best) 25159/32845
Monkston 22487/32845
Danesborough & Walton 21609/32845
Tattenhoe 20715/32845
Bletchley West 20509/32845
Shenley Brook End 20254/32845
Broughton 19987/32845
Bletchley Park 18846/32845
Woughton & Fishermead 8017/32845
Bletchley East (Worst) 7788/32845
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Your Health in Bletchley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Luton 1.2% 3.73%
Milton Keynes (Bletchley) 0.94% 3.2%
Bedford 0.98% 3.55%
South Northamptonshire 0.77% 2.64%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Great Brickhill & Newton Longville (Best) 28149/32845
Danesborough & Walton 23511/32845
Broughton 23464/32845
Monkston 21499/32845
Shenley Brook End 21160/32845
Tattenhoe 19451/32845
Bletchley West 17966/32845
Bletchley Park 16495/32845
Bletchley East 12029/32845
Woughton & Fishermead (Worst) 9561/32845

Deprivation in Bletchley

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 Bletchley. 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
Great Brickhill & Newton Longville (Best) 26715/32845
Broughton 24372/32845
Tattenhoe 23507/32845
Shenley Brook End 23007/32845
Danesborough & Walton 22806/32845
Monkston 22070/32845
Bletchley West 18018/32845
Bletchley Park 16046/32845
Bletchley East 9055/32845
Woughton & Fishermead (Worst) 7660/32845

Average rent in Bletchley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bletchley

If you are thinking of moving to Bletchley, 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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