Is Camberley, Surrey a nice place to live?

Is Camberley a nice place to live or is Camberley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Camberley 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 Camberley truly a nice place to live, or are Sandhurst, Blackwater and Hawley and Yateley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Camberley?

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 Camberley. 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
Camberley 62
Crawley Hill 62
York Town 60
College Town 42
Frimley 39
Frogmore 24
Frimley Ridge 22
High Curley 10
Bagshot Heath 10
Heatherside 7

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Camberley. 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 Camberley 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 St Pauls ward.

Ward Average rank in England
St Pauls (Best) 30990/32845
College Town 29332/32845
Parkside 29103/32845
Frimley Green 27123/32845
Frimley 25682/32845
Bagshot 21546/32845
Old Dean 21299/32845
St Michaels 19201/32845
Watchetts 18268/32845
Town (Worst) 15146/32845
Reader Opinion:

Farnborough: It isn't a nice place, a cesspool of human filth is better description

Your Health in Camberley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Bracknell Forest 0.72% 2.53%
Rushmoor 0.82% 2.8%
Surrey Heath (Camberley) 0.74% 2.49%
Runnymede 0.75% 2.94%

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

Ward Average rank in England
St Pauls (Best) 31896/32845
College Town 30287/32845
Parkside 30238/32845
Bagshot 27572/32845
Frimley Green 25440/32845
Frimley 24905/32845
Watchetts 24621/32845
Old Dean 22810/32845
Town 19800/32845
St Michaels (Worst) 17563/32845
Reader Opinion:

Woking: good train links to London apart from that it's a sh*thole

Deprivation in Camberley

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 Camberley. 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
St Pauls (Best) 31540/32845
Parkside 30909/32845
College Town 28571/32845
Bagshot 27742/32845
Frimley Green 27631/32845
Frimley 25464/32845
Watchetts 22829/32845
Old Dean 20162/32845
St Michaels 19640/32845
Town (Worst) 19488/32845

Average rent in Camberley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Camberley

If you are thinking of moving to Camberley, 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.

How grim is your Postcode?