Is Bordon, Hampshire a nice place to live?

Is Bordon a nice place to live or is Bordon rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bordon 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 Bordon truly a nice place to live, or are Alton, Whitehill and Haslemere a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bordon?

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 Bordon. 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
Bordon 27
Hollywater 22
Hearn 10
Arford 7
Conford 3
Passfield 3
Griggs Green 2
Shortheath 1
Frithend 0
Blackmoor 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bordon. 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 Bordon 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 Grayshott ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Grayshott (Best) 30540/32845
Hindhead 30385/32845
Haslemere Critchmere and Shottermill 26736/32845
Lindford 22679/32845
Headley 22365/32845
Bramshott & Liphook 20858/32845
Binsted, Bentley & Selborne 18724/32845
Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham 17825/32845
Whitehill Pinewood 11308/32845
Whitehill Castle (Worst) 9052/32845
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Your Health in Bordon

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Basingstoke and Deane 0.74% 2.72%
East Hampshire (Bordon) 0.82% 2.89%
Waverley 0.72% 2.53%
Hart 0.56% 2.08%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Lindford (Best) 28941/32845
Binsted, Bentley & Selborne 28403/32845
Headley 28052/32845
Bramshott & Liphook 26298/32845
Grayshott 24786/32845
Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham 24778/32845
Haslemere Critchmere and Shottermill 23100/32845
Whitehill Pinewood 21699/32845
Hindhead 21587/32845
Whitehill Castle (Worst) 19770/32845
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Deprivation in Bordon

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 Bordon. 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
Hindhead (Best) 30151/32845
Grayshott 27049/32845
Haslemere Critchmere and Shottermill 26180/32845
Bramshott & Liphook 25491/32845
Headley 24972/32845
Lindford 24009/32845
Binsted, Bentley & Selborne 22506/32845
Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham 21733/32845
Whitehill Pinewood 18995/32845
Whitehill Castle (Worst) 18362/32845

Average rent in Bordon

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bordon

If you are thinking of moving to Bordon, 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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