So you are thinking of moving to Camelford in Cornwall? 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 Camelford 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 Camelford the land of milk and honey or are Bodmin, Padstow and Wadebridge a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Camelford
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 Camelford. 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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Camelford | 12 |
Pencarrow | 5 |
Pengelly | 1 |
Penpethy | 1 |
Bossiney | 0 |
Halgabron | 0 |
Truas | 0 |
Lanteglos-by-Camelford | 0 |
Helstone | 0 |
Knightsmill | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Camelford. 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 Camelford. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Bodmin St Leonard (Best) | 12260/32845 |
Bodmin St Petroc | 14433/32845 |
Bodmin St Mary's | 15598/32845 |
Camelford | 26086/32845 |
St Minver and St Endellion | 28755/32845 |
St Issey and St Tudy | 30849/32845 |
St Teath and St Breward | 31299/32845 |
Wadebridge East | 31304/32845 |
Tintagel | 31596/32845 |
Plymouth: England's Cesspit
Your Health in Camelford
If you are thinking of moving to Camelford, 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 Camelford 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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Cornwall (Camelford) | 1.43% | 4.87% | 14.88% | 33.59% | 45.23% |
Plymouth | 1.44% | 5.08% | 13.95% | 33.53% | 46.02% |
South Hams | 1.11% | 3.8% | 13.32% | 34.37% | 47.41% |
West Devon | 1.18% | 3.96% | 14.28% | 34.73% | 45.85% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Camelford. 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 Camelford. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Bodmin St Mary's (Best) | 10056/32845 |
Bodmin St Leonard | 10745/32845 |
Bodmin St Petroc | 14604/32845 |
Camelford | 16206/32845 |
Tintagel | 18144/32845 |
Wadebridge East | 19156/32845 |
St Teath and St Breward | 19268/32845 |
St Issey and St Tudy | 20900/32845 |
St Minver and St Endellion | 22623/32845 |
Wadebridge - The Poor man's Padstow
Deprivation in Camelford
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 Camelford. 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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Tintagel (Best) | 10882/32845 |
St Teath and St Breward | 11904/32845 |
Bodmin St Petroc | 12511/32845 |
St Issey and St Tudy | 12859/32845 |
St Minver and St Endellion | 13399/32845 |
Wadebridge East | 17132/32845 |
Bodmin St Leonard | 7355/32845 |
Bodmin St Mary's | 8487/32845 |
Camelford | 9474/32845 |
Wadebridge – The Poor man’s Padstow
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