So you are thinking of moving to Charlbury in Oxfordshire? 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 Charlbury 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 Charlbury the land of milk and honey or are Chipping Norton, Witney and Woodstock a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Charlbury
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 Charlbury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Ramsden | 5 |
| Charlbury | 4 |
| Stonesfield | 4 |
| Fawler | 4 |
| Finstock | 4 |
| Taston | 1 |
| Spelsbury | 1 |
| Fulwell | 0 |
| Enstone | 0 |
| Neat Enstone | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Charlbury. 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 Charlbury. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Chipping Norton (Best) | 19031/32845 |
| Chadlington and Churchill | 20691/32845 |
| Charlbury and Finstock | 27931/32845 |
| Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield | 28175/32845 |
| Eynsham and Cassington | 29888/32845 |
| Witney East | 30502/32845 |
| Woodstock and Bladon | 30711/32845 |
| North Leigh | 30897/32845 |
| Milton-under-Wychwood | 31159/32845 |
| Stonesfield and Tackley (Worst) | 31888/32845 |
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Your Health in Charlbury
If you are thinking of moving to Charlbury, 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 Charlbury 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford | 0.85% | 2.76% | 9.43% | 31.73% | 55.23% |
| Cherwell | 0.84% | 3% | 11.17% | 34.65% | 50.33% |
| Vale of White Horse | 0.75% | 2.61% | 10.8% | 33.98% | 51.85% |
| West Oxfordshire (Charlbury) | 0.7% | 2.81% | 11.15% | 33.82% | 51.52% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Charlbury. 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 Charlbury. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Chipping Norton (Best) | 23519/32845 |
| Eynsham and Cassington | 25306/32845 |
| Witney East | 26799/32845 |
| North Leigh | 28278/32845 |
| Charlbury and Finstock | 28612/32845 |
| Chadlington and Churchill | 28760/32845 |
| Woodstock and Bladon | 29233/32845 |
| Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield | 29491/32845 |
| Stonesfield and Tackley | 30527/32845 |
| Milton-under-Wychwood (Worst) | 30916/32845 |
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Deprivation in Charlbury
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 Charlbury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Chadlington and Churchill (Best) | 20441/32845 |
| Chipping Norton | 23502/32845 |
| Eynsham and Cassington | 25700/32845 |
| Witney East | 26531/32845 |
| Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield | 27426/32845 |
| Milton-under-Wychwood | 28496/32845 |
| Charlbury and Finstock | 29094/32845 |
| Stonesfield and Tackley | 29192/32845 |
| North Leigh | 29206/32845 |
| Woodstock and Bladon (Worst) | 31057/32845 |
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