So you are thinking of moving to Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire? 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 Chipping Sodbury 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 Chipping Sodbury the land of milk and honey or are Bradley Stoke, Wickwar and Yate a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Chipping Sodbury
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 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Goose Green | 46 |
| Chipping Sodbury | 44 |
| Little Sodbury End | 4 |
| Colt’s Green | 3 |
| Horton | 1 |
| Totteroak | 1 |
| Horwood Riding | 1 |
| Wapley | 0 |
| Little Sodbury | 0 |
| Codrington | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chipping Sodbury. 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 Chipping Sodbury. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Staple Hill & Mangotsfield (Best) | 11001/32845 |
| Yate Central | 18270/32845 |
| Emersons Green | 19543/32845 |
| Dodington | 21404/32845 |
| Charfield | 21425/32845 |
| Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge | 22831/32845 |
| Frampton Cotterell | 22904/32845 |
| Yate North | 23528/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke South | 24329/32845 |
| Kingswood (Worst) | 31557/32845 |
Huddersfield, not such a 'brilliant' place to live!
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;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol, City of | 1.27% | 4.22% | 12.25% | 33.46% | 48.81% |
| South Gloucestershire (Chipping Sodbury) | 0.93% | 3.26% | 11.77% | 34.89% | 49.15% |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 0.91% | 3.31% | 11.85% | 33.43% | 50.5% |
| Cotswold | 0.8% | 3.01% | 12.33% | 35.07% | 48.78% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Staple Hill & Mangotsfield (Best) | 22170/32845 |
| Yate Central | 23010/32845 |
| Dodington | 25048/32845 |
| Charfield | 25544/32845 |
| Yate North | 25796/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke South | 28507/32845 |
| Emersons Green | 28606/32845 |
| Frampton Cotterell | 28746/32845 |
| Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge | 29694/32845 |
| Kingswood (Worst) | 30175/32845 |
Yeovil, neatly situated in the arse end of nowhere
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 |
|---|---|
| Staple Hill & Mangotsfield (Best) | 18538/32845 |
| Yate Central | 19736/32845 |
| Dodington | 22952/32845 |
| Charfield | 22968/32845 |
| Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge | 23942/32845 |
| Yate North | 24369/32845 |
| Emersons Green | 26216/32845 |
| Frampton Cotterell | 26522/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke South | 28821/32845 |
| Kingswood (Worst) | 30142/32845 |
