So you are thinking of moving to Chard in Somerset? 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 Chard 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 Chard the land of milk and honey or are Axminster, Crewkerne and Ilminster a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Chard
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 Chard. 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 |
|---|---|
| Furnham | 42 |
| Chard | 37 |
| Cuttiford’s Door | 26 |
| New England | 26 |
| Langham | 26 |
| Crimchard | 22 |
| Hornsbury | 18 |
| Paintmoor | 15 |
| Forton | 14 |
| Chardleigh Green | 10 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chard. 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 Chard. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Chard Avishayes (Best) | 10937/32845 |
| Chard Combe | 12497/32845 |
| Chard Crimchard | 15734/32845 |
| Chard Jocelyn | 16198/32845 |
| Ilminster | 22002/32845 |
| Blackdown & Tatworth | 25153/32845 |
| Neroche | 25539/32845 |
| Windwhistle | 26759/32845 |
| Yarty | 28351/32845 |
| Chard Holyrood (Worst) | 8527/32845 |
Chard: The town where the garbage men make deliveries
Your Health in Chard
If you are thinking of moving to Chard, 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 Chard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Somerset (Chard) | 1.03% | 3.79% | 13.82% | 35.91% | 45.45% |
| East Devon | 1.13% | 3.99% | 15.07% | 36.02% | 43.79% |
| Mid Devon | 0.96% | 3.58% | 13.37% | 35.44% | 46.64% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Chard. 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 Chard. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Chard Holyrood (Best) | 11086/32845 |
| Chard Jocelyn | 12156/32845 |
| Chard Avishayes | 13685/32845 |
| Chard Combe | 14223/32845 |
| Chard Crimchard | 19096/32845 |
| Ilminster | 21088/32845 |
| Neroche | 21538/32845 |
| Windwhistle | 24364/32845 |
| Blackdown & Tatworth | 24504/32845 |
| Yarty (Worst) | 26872/32845 |
Axminster - Blink and you'll miss it
Deprivation in Chard
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 Chard. 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 |
|---|---|
| Chard Avishayes (Best) | 13765/32845 |
| Chard Combe | 14406/32845 |
| Chard Jocelyn | 14799/32845 |
| Yarty | 18102/32845 |
| Chard Crimchard | 18385/32845 |
| Windwhistle | 18691/32845 |
| Ilminster | 18773/32845 |
| Blackdown & Tatworth | 19001/32845 |
| Neroche | 19920/32845 |
| Chard Holyrood (Worst) | 8702/32845 |
Chard: The town where the garbage men make deliveries
Chard, the houses remind me of Cambridge… if it had been bombed
Bridgwater, take your time driving through (with the doors locked)
Minehead, Grockels come to here to paddle their hairy toes in the sea
Bridgwater: like an open cesspit, the thickest sh*ts tend to accumulate here
Glastonbury: it’s hard to find anyone who isn’t blowing shamanic smoke up their own ****
Weston-super-Mare, A Seaside ‘holiday town’ hellhole
Yeovil, neatly situated in the **** end of nowhere
Wells – Posh veneer, **** underbelly