So you are thinking of moving to Crowthorne in Berkshire? 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 Crowthorne 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 Crowthorne the land of milk and honey or are Sandhurst, Wokingham and Yateley a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Crowthorne
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 Crowthorne. 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 |
|---|---|
| Great Hollands | 62 |
| Sandhurst | 40 |
| Little Sandhurst | 27 |
| Crowthorne | 21 |
| Heathlands | 10 |
| Ravenswood Village Settlement | 10 |
| Blackwater | 9 |
| Holme Green | 9 |
| Gardeners Green | 8 |
| Honey Hill | 8 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Crowthorne. 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 Crowthorne. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Yateley East (Best) | 17632/32845 |
| Great Hollands South | 22917/32845 |
| Crowthorne | 23986/32845 |
| Central Sandhurst | 24152/32845 |
| Finchampstead South | 25671/32845 |
| Wokingham Without | 29298/32845 |
| College Town | 29332/32845 |
| Owlsmoor | 29815/32845 |
| Little Sandhurst and Wellington | 31059/32845 |
| Finchampstead North (Worst) | 31716/32845 |
Sandhurst, there is nothing to do... really, nothing.
Your Health in Crowthorne
If you are thinking of moving to Crowthorne, 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 Crowthorne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 0.75% | 2.68% | 9.85% | 32.22% | 54.51% |
| Wokingham | 0.61% | 2.14% | 9.44% | 33.56% | 54.26% |
| Bracknell Forest (Crowthorne) | 0.72% | 2.53% | 10.06% | 34.29% | 52.4% |
| Surrey Heath | 0.74% | 2.49% | 10% | 33.3% | 53.47% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Crowthorne. 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 Crowthorne. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Great Hollands South (Best) | 24729/32845 |
| Central Sandhurst | 26454/32845 |
| Crowthorne | 27489/32845 |
| Owlsmoor | 27617/32845 |
| Finchampstead South | 28930/32845 |
| Yateley East | 28943/32845 |
| Little Sandhurst and Wellington | 29833/32845 |
| College Town | 30287/32845 |
| Wokingham Without | 30330/32845 |
| Finchampstead North (Worst) | 32134/32845 |
Bracknell is a dump... need i say more?
Deprivation in Crowthorne
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 Crowthorne. 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 |
|---|---|
| Great Hollands South (Best) | 20961/32845 |
| Crowthorne | 25359/32845 |
| Finchampstead South | 26451/32845 |
| Yateley East | 27334/32845 |
| Owlsmoor | 27426/32845 |
| Central Sandhurst | 27553/32845 |
| Wokingham Without | 28226/32845 |
| College Town | 28571/32845 |
| Little Sandhurst and Wellington | 31323/32845 |
| Finchampstead North (Worst) | 31610/32845 |
Reading – what was a fairly nice university town is now a hell hole
Maidenhead – What an absolute dump
Bracknell is a dump… need i say more?
Reading – it’s the home of some great characters
Maidenhead: Not fit for a Royal wedding!
Sandhurst, there is nothing to do… really, nothing.
Slough, If the Earth needed an enema, this where they’d insert the tube
Bracknell, If Berkshire needed an enema this is where they’d stick the tube
Maidenhead is really the poor relative of Slough