Is Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire a nice place to live?

Is Cleobury Mortimer a nice place to live or is Cleobury Mortimer rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cleobury Mortimer 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 Cleobury Mortimer truly a nice place to live, or are Bewdley, Stourport on Severn and Tenbury Wells a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cleobury Mortimer?

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 Cleobury Mortimer. 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
Rea 5
Neen Savage 5
Far Forest 4
Buckridge 3
Hopton Wafers 1
Bayton 0
Mamble 0
Foxwood 0
Hoptonbank 0
Bayton Common 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cleobury Mortimer. 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 Cleobury Mortimer 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 Clee ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clee (Best) 30153/32845
Lindridge 29937/32845
Cleobury Mortimer 28604/32845
Woodbury 28267/32845
Brown Clee 27639/32845
Alveley and Claverley 26447/32845
Highley 22404/32845
Baldwin 22289/32845
Bewdley & Rock 22201/32845
Reader Opinion:

Cleobury Mortimer - Strange Little Town

Your Health in Cleobury Mortimer

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Shropshire (Cleobury Mortimer) 1.13% 3.91%
South Staffordshire 1.27% 4.1%
Wyre Forest 1.36% 4.64%
Malvern Hills 1.36% 3.94%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Woodbury (Best) 31795/32845
Lindridge 28857/32845
Clee 28175/32845
Baldwin 27393/32845
Brown Clee 27123/32845
Alveley and Claverley 26413/32845
Cleobury Mortimer 24942/32845
Bewdley & Rock 23477/32845
Highley 21125/32845
Reader Opinion:

Stourport-On-Severn: a hell hole of charity shops & old people's homes

Deprivation in Cleobury Mortimer

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 Cleobury Mortimer. 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
Woodbury (Best) 25631/32845
Alveley and Claverley 19284/32845
Highley 18231/32845
Bewdley & Rock 17407/32845
Clee 16438/32845
Cleobury Mortimer 15965/32845
Baldwin 15852/32845
Brown Clee 15599/32845
Lindridge 15351/32845

Average rent in Cleobury Mortimer

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cleobury Mortimer

If you are thinking of moving to Cleobury Mortimer, 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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