Is Bradninch, Devon a nice place to live?

Is Bradninch a nice place to live or is Bradninch rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bradninch 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 Bradninch truly a nice place to live, or are Cullompton, Ottery St Mary and Tiverton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bradninch?

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 Bradninch. 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
Culm 0
Ponsford 0
Stockwell 0
Stoneyford 0
Cullompton 0
Livingshayes 0
Butterleigh 0
Higher Weaver 0
Aller 0
Dulford 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bradninch. 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 Bradninch 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 Cadbury ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Cadbury (Best) 32497/32845
Bradninch 30671/32845
Lower Culm 29390/32845
Silverton 29388/32845
Cullompton South 28097/32845
Exe Valley 27550/32845
Cullompton Outer 26900/32845
Halberton 26565/32845
Cullompton North 24760/32845
Reader Opinion:

Wiveliscombe: sh*te rolled down hill and collected in one glorious cesspit

Your Health in Bradninch

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Teignbridge 1.25% 4.24%
Exeter 1.1% 3.68%
Mid Devon (Bradninch) 0.96% 3.58%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Silverton (Best) 30930/32845
Cullompton Outer 30364/32845
Exe Valley 30244/32845
Halberton 29104/32845
Cadbury 28987/32845
Lower Culm 27801/32845
Cullompton South 25924/32845
Bradninch 24984/32845
Cullompton North 22899/32845
Reader Opinion:

What you'll witness in Cullompton will haunt you for the rest of your life

Deprivation in Bradninch

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 Bradninch. 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
Lower Culm (Best) 23230/32845
Bradninch 21998/32845
Cullompton South 20720/32845
Silverton 20624/32845
Cullompton North 20284/32845
Cadbury 19349/32845
Exe Valley 19079/32845
Halberton 18037/32845
Cullompton Outer 17869/32845

Average rent in Bradninch

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bradninch

If you are thinking of moving to Bradninch, 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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