Is Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire a nice place to live?

Is Chipping Sodbury a nice place to live or is Chipping Sodbury rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Chipping Sodbury 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 Sodbury truly a nice place to live, or are Bradley Stoke, Wickwar and Yate a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Chipping Sodbury?

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 Sodbury. 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
Goose Green 52
Chipping Sodbury 45
Little Sodbury End 14
Colt’s Green 9
Wapley 3
Totteroak 2
Horton 1
Horwood Riding 1
Little Sodbury 0
Codrington 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chipping Sodbury. 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 Sodbury 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 Kingswood ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Kingswood (Best) 31557/32845
Bradley Stoke South 24329/32845
Yate North 23528/32845
Frampton Cotterell 22904/32845
Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge 22831/32845
Charfield 21425/32845
Dodington 21404/32845
Emersons Green 19543/32845
Yate Central 18270/32845
Staple Hill & Mangotsfield (Worst) 11001/32845
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Your Health in Chipping Sodbury

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Bristol, City of 1.27% 4.22%
South Gloucestershire (Chipping Sodbury) 0.93% 3.26%
Bath and North East Somerset 0.91% 3.31%
Cotswold 0.8% 3.01%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Kingswood (Best) 30175/32845
Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge 29694/32845
Frampton Cotterell 28746/32845
Emersons Green 28606/32845
Bradley Stoke South 28507/32845
Yate North 25796/32845
Charfield 25544/32845
Dodington 25048/32845
Yate Central 23010/32845
Staple Hill & Mangotsfield (Worst) 22170/32845
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Deprivation in Chipping Sodbury

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 Sodbury. 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
Kingswood (Best) 30142/32845
Bradley Stoke South 28821/32845
Frampton Cotterell 26522/32845
Emersons Green 26216/32845
Yate North 24369/32845
Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge 23942/32845
Charfield 22968/32845
Dodington 22952/32845
Yate Central 19736/32845
Staple Hill & Mangotsfield (Worst) 18538/32845

Average rent in Chipping Sodbury

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Chipping Sodbury

If you are thinking of moving to Chipping Sodbury, 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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