So you are thinking of moving to Brackley in Northamptonshire? 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 Brackley 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 Brackley the land of milk and honey or are Buckingham, Banbury and Ruscote a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Brackley
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 Brackley. 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 |
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Turweston | 4 |
Greatworth | 3 |
Syresham | 2 |
Farthinghoe | 2 |
Radstone | 1 |
Croughton | 1 |
Crowfield | 1 |
Newbottle | 0 |
Evenley | 0 |
Helmdon | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Brackley. 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 Brackley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Astwell (Best) | 21978/32845 |
Fringford and Heyfords | 23704/32845 |
Brackley South | 24874/32845 |
Silverstone | 27079/32845 |
Brackley East | 27946/32845 |
Middleton Cheney | 28801/32845 |
Kings Sutton | 30329/32845 |
Steane | 31087/32845 |
Little Brook | 31200/32845 |
Brackley West (Worst) | 32004/32845 |
Daventry, the opposite of Hotel California
Your Health in Brackley
If you are thinking of moving to Brackley, 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 Brackley 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 |
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Milton Keynes | 0.94% | 3.2% | 10.82% | 34.88% | 50.17% |
Northampton | 1.03% | 3.61% | 12.51% | 36.47% | 46.38% |
Cherwell | 0.84% | 3% | 11.17% | 34.65% | 50.33% |
South Northamptonshire (Brackley) | 0.77% | 2.64% | 11.01% | 34.87% | 50.72% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Brackley. 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 Brackley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Brackley South (Best) | 24957/32845 |
Fringford and Heyfords | 25910/32845 |
Middleton Cheney | 26050/32845 |
Brackley East | 27264/32845 |
Silverstone | 29713/32845 |
Steane | 29812/32845 |
Kings Sutton | 30072/32845 |
Brackley West | 30171/32845 |
Astwell | 31999/32845 |
Little Brook (Worst) | 32223/32845 |
Banbury: I don't think I've quite got over the culture shock
Deprivation in Brackley
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 Brackley. 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 |
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Fringford and Heyfords (Best) | 18908/32845 |
Steane | 23957/32845 |
Astwell | 25225/32845 |
Brackley South | 26691/32845 |
Little Brook | 27326/32845 |
Middleton Cheney | 27369/32845 |
Kings Sutton | 27936/32845 |
Brackley East | 30050/32845 |
Brackley West | 31876/32845 |
Silverstone (Worst) | 31928/32845 |
Daventry, the opposite of Hotel California
Daventry, town of the zombie
Northampton: dangerous at night, unpleasant during the day
Rothwell: God’s Idea of a Joke
Northampton, a turdhole too far
Northampton, observe our loverly wide range of *****
Northampton, degenerating from once proud centre of middle England
Kettering is absolutely dreadful and I’ve had to live here for 9 years
Desborough – It amazes me how much ********** there is