Is Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire a nice place to live?

Is Chipping Norton a nice place to live or is Chipping Norton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Chipping Norton 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 Norton truly a nice place to live, or are Moreton in Marsh, Stow on the Wold and Charlbury a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Chipping Norton?

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 Norton. 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
Chipping Norton 14
Southrop 2
Southcoombe 1
Great Rollright 1
Long Compton 0
Little Compton 0
Salford 0
Churchill 0
Little Rollright 0
Church Enstone 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chipping Norton. 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 Norton 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 Milton-under-Wychwood ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Milton-under-Wychwood (Best) 31159/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 29867/32845
Moreton East 28197/32845
Moreton West 28197/32845
Charlbury and Finstock 27931/32845
The Bartons 27727/32845
Stow 27108/32845
Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton 26939/32845
Chadlington and Churchill 20691/32845
Chipping Norton (Worst) 19031/32845
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Your Health in Chipping Norton

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Oxford 0.85% 2.76%
Cherwell 0.84% 3%
Vale of White Horse 0.75% 2.61%
West Oxfordshire (Chipping Norton) 0.7% 2.81%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Milton-under-Wychwood (Best) 30916/32845
Chadlington and Churchill 28760/32845
Charlbury and Finstock 28612/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 28300/32845
Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton 27009/32845
The Bartons 26471/32845
Stow 24983/32845
Moreton East 24005/32845
Moreton West 24005/32845
Chipping Norton (Worst) 23519/32845

Deprivation in Chipping Norton

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 Norton. 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
Charlbury and Finstock (Best) 29094/32845
Milton-under-Wychwood 28496/32845
The Bartons 25309/32845
Chipping Norton 23502/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 22078/32845
Stow 21764/32845
Moreton East 21165/32845
Moreton West 21165/32845
Chadlington and Churchill 20441/32845
Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton (Worst) 19949/32845

Average rent in Chipping Norton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Chipping Norton

If you are thinking of moving to Chipping Norton, 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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