Is Bromyard, Herefordshire a nice place to live?

Is Bromyard a nice place to live or is Bromyard rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bromyard 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 Bromyard truly a nice place to live, or are Hatfield, Malvern and Tenbury Wells a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bromyard?

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 Bromyard. 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
Bromyard Downs 20
Frome 20
Bromyard 17
Batchfields 1
Meadow Green 1
Bishop’s Frome 1
Harpley 1
Pencombe 0
Bringsty Common 0
Acton Green 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bromyard. 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 Bromyard 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 Hampton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hampton (Best) 30343/32845
Teme Valley 27245/32845
Martley 26818/32845
Hope End 26064/32845
Bishops Frome & Cradley 25487/32845
Three Crosses 24862/32845
West 22664/32845
Bromyard Bringsty 19768/32845
Dyson Perrins 18710/32845
Bromyard West (Worst) 17418/32845
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Your Health in Bromyard

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Herefordshire, County of (Bromyard) 1.17% 4.06%
Wyre Forest 1.36% 4.64%
Malvern Hills 1.36% 3.94%
Worcester 1.03% 3.83%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Martley (Best) 29811/32845
Teme Valley 29564/32845
Three Crosses 25669/32845
West 24944/32845
Bishops Frome & Cradley 24879/32845
Hope End 22932/32845
Dyson Perrins 22814/32845
Hampton 21769/32845
Bromyard Bringsty 17769/32845
Bromyard West (Worst) 14905/32845
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Deprivation in Bromyard

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 Bromyard. 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
West (Best) 22696/32845
Dyson Perrins 21100/32845
Bishops Frome & Cradley 19980/32845
Martley 19397/32845
Hope End 18737/32845
Teme Valley 15925/32845
Bromyard West 14463/32845
Bromyard Bringsty 14100/32845
Hampton 13074/32845
Three Crosses (Worst) 13058/32845

Average rent in Bromyard

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bromyard

If you are thinking of moving to Bromyard, 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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