Is Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire a nice place to live?

Is Chipping Campden a nice place to live or is Chipping Campden rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Chipping Campden 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 Chipping Campden truly a nice place to live, or are Moreton in Marsh, Middle Quinton and Shipston on Stour a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Chipping Campden?

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 Chipping Campden. 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
Paxford 7
Saintbury 5
Chipping Campden 3
Honeybourne 2
Blockley 2
Ebrington 0
Hidcote Boyce 0
Hidcote Bartrim 0
Nebsworth 0
Aston Magna 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chipping Campden. 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 Chipping Campden 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 Blockley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Blockley (Best) 30706/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 29867/32845
Campden & Vale 29074/32845
Quinton 28446/32845
Moreton East 28197/32845
Moreton West 28197/32845
Bretforton and Offenham 27306/32845
Shipston South 27276/32845
Broadway and Wickhamford 25846/32845
The Littletons (Worst) 20262/32845

Your Health in Chipping Campden

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wychavon 0.98% 3.71%
Cheltenham 0.85% 3.14%
West Oxfordshire 0.7% 2.81%
Cotswold (Chipping Campden) 0.8% 3.01%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone (Best) 28300/32845
Campden & Vale 27718/32845
Blockley 27567/32845
Quinton 26331/32845
Broadway and Wickhamford 26204/32845
Bretforton and Offenham 24750/32845
Moreton East 24005/32845
Moreton West 24005/32845
Shipston South 23203/32845
The Littletons (Worst) 12311/32845

Deprivation in Chipping Campden

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 Chipping Campden. 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
Campden & Vale (Best) 25524/32845
Quinton 24161/32845
Bretforton and Offenham 23503/32845
Shipston South 23360/32845
Broadway and Wickhamford 22234/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 22078/32845
Blockley 21936/32845
Moreton East 21165/32845
Moreton West 21165/32845
The Littletons (Worst) 13070/32845

Average rent in Chipping Campden

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Chipping Campden

If you are thinking of moving to Chipping Campden, 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.

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