So you are thinking of moving to Canterbury in Kent? 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 Canterbury 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 Canterbury the land of milk and honey or are Fordwich, Greenhill and Whitstable a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Canterbury
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Canterbury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Canterbury | 116 |
| Hales Place | 115 |
| Harbledown | 60 |
| Tyler Hill | 44 |
| Broad Oak | 27 |
| Fordwich | 27 |
| Thanington | 11 |
| Rough Common | 11 |
| Blean | 6 |
| Bekesbourne Hill | 3 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Canterbury. 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 Canterbury. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Barton (Best) | 10603/32845 |
| St Stephen's | 11561/32845 |
| Boughton and Courtenay | 13448/32845 |
| Sturry | 14781/32845 |
| Chartham & Stone Street | 17747/32845 |
| Blean Forest | 20515/32845 |
| Little Stour & Adisham | 21438/32845 |
| Northgate | 8280/32845 |
| Wincheap | 8339/32845 |
| Westgate (Worst) | 9901/32845 |
Why not to live in Ramsgate
Your Health in Canterbury
If you are thinking of moving to Canterbury, 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 Canterbury 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swale | 1.32% | 4.42% | 14.07% | 35.87% | 44.32% |
| Canterbury (Canterbury) | 1.12% | 4.06% | 13.37% | 34.63% | 46.82% |
| Shepway | 1.49% | 4.93% | 15.25% | 36.12% | 42.21% |
| Ashford | 1.06% | 3.53% | 12.74% | 35.09% | 47.58% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Canterbury. 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 Canterbury. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Northgate (Best) | 13859/32845 |
| Barton | 14217/32845 |
| Wincheap | 15125/32845 |
| Sturry | 16387/32845 |
| St Stephen's | 16793/32845 |
| Boughton and Courtenay | 17012/32845 |
| Westgate | 18826/32845 |
| Little Stour & Adisham | 22557/32845 |
| Chartham & Stone Street | 22957/32845 |
| Blean Forest (Worst) | 23080/32845 |
Margate - A true horror
Deprivation in Canterbury
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 Canterbury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Northgate (Best) | 14546/32845 |
| Boughton and Courtenay | 15115/32845 |
| Barton | 16732/32845 |
| Sturry | 16775/32845 |
| Wincheap | 17467/32845 |
| St Stephen's | 18722/32845 |
| Westgate | 19389/32845 |
| Chartham & Stone Street | 20846/32845 |
| Little Stour & Adisham | 22005/32845 |
| Blean Forest (Worst) | 24082/32845 |
Ramsgate – the town of no hope
Herne Bay: Kent’s finest for coke addled spontaneous sparring sessions
Why not to live in Ramsgate
Margate – A true horror
Whitstable: get drunk, smell of fish and nearly get into 5 fights
Aylesham is a village of Anti-Conservatives and racists
Ashford, I grew up here and I am mentally scarred
Sittingbourne: the only small town to have 3 branches of McDonalds
Chatham: the dog sh*t splattered patio of the Garden of England