Is Bodmin, Cornwall a nice place to live?

Is Bodmin a nice place to live or is Bodmin rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bodmin 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 Bodmin truly a nice place to live, or are Lostwithiel, St Blazey and Wadebridge a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bodmin?

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 Bodmin. 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
Bodmin 0
Cooksland 0
Carminow Cross 0
Dunmere 0
St Lawrence 0
Camel 0
Turfdown 0
Lane-end 0
Washaway 0
Cutmadoc 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bodmin. 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 Bodmin 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 Wadebridge East ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Wadebridge East (Best) 31304/32845
St Issey and St Tudy 30849/32845
St Columb Major 30274/32845
Lanivet and Blisland 28621/32845
St Blazey 19388/32845
Bugle 19141/32845
Bodmin St Mary's 15598/32845
Bodmin St Petroc 14433/32845
Bodmin St Leonard 12260/32845
Reader Opinion:

Wadebridge - The Poor man's Padstow

Your Health in Bodmin

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cornwall (Bodmin) 1.43% 4.87%
Plymouth 1.44% 5.08%
South Hams 1.11% 3.8%
West Devon 1.18% 3.96%

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

Ward Average rank in England
St Issey and St Tudy (Best) 20900/32845
Lanivet and Blisland 19762/32845
Wadebridge East 19156/32845
St Columb Major 18525/32845
Bodmin St Petroc 14604/32845
St Blazey 13775/32845
Bugle 12253/32845
Bodmin St Leonard 10745/32845
Bodmin St Mary's 10056/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Deprivation in Bodmin

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 Bodmin. 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
Wadebridge East (Best) 17132/32845
St Columb Major 13466/32845
St Issey and St Tudy 12859/32845
Bodmin St Petroc 12511/32845
St Blazey 12270/32845
Lanivet and Blisland 11520/32845
Bodmin St Mary's 8487/32845
Bodmin St Leonard 7355/32845
Bugle 7240/32845

Average rent in Bodmin

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bodmin

If you are thinking of moving to Bodmin, 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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