So you are thinking of moving to Desborough in Northamptonshire? 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 Desborough 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 Desborough the land of milk and honey or are Market Harborough, Kettering and Rothwell a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Desborough
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Desborough. 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 |
|---|---|
| Rothwell | 29 |
| Little Bowden | 28 |
| Great Oakley | 15 |
| Little Cransley | 6 |
| Great Cransley | 6 |
| Rushton | 4 |
| Loddington | 1 |
| Harrington | 0 |
| Stoke Albany | 0 |
| Ashley | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Desborough. 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 Desborough. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Rothwell (Best) | 13511/32845 |
| Danesholme | 17122/32845 |
| Brambleside | 19253/32845 |
| Welford | 20075/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Little Bowden | 20223/32845 |
| Desborough Loatland | 20406/32845 |
| Oakley South | 21080/32845 |
| William Knibb | 2333/32845 |
| Desborough St Giles | 24866/32845 |
| Northfield (Worst) | 2805/32845 |
Peterborough - there is no culture
Your Health in Desborough
If you are thinking of moving to Desborough, 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 Desborough 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kettering (Desborough) | 1.01% | 3.72% | 12.88% | 36.34% | 46.04% |
| Wellingborough | 1.16% | 3.95% | 14.18% | 37.03% | 43.68% |
| East Northamptonshire | 0.97% | 3.39% | 12.85% | 35.93% | 46.86% |
| Corby | 1.36% | 4.4% | 13.13% | 35.16% | 45.94% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Desborough. 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 Desborough. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Oakley South (Best) | 15411/32845 |
| Desborough Loatland | 15421/32845 |
| Desborough St Giles | 16465/32845 |
| Brambleside | 16627/32845 |
| Rothwell | 18502/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Little Bowden | 25906/32845 |
| Welford | 30191/32845 |
| Northfield | 5724/32845 |
| William Knibb | 8038/32845 |
| Danesholme (Worst) | 9390/32845 |
Northampton, also known as 'Nofuntown'
Deprivation in Desborough
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 Desborough. 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 |
|---|---|
| Danesholme (Best) | 13522/32845 |
| Rothwell | 17463/32845 |
| Brambleside | 18962/32845 |
| Desborough Loatland | 20003/32845 |
| Oakley South | 21718/32845 |
| Desborough St Giles | 21862/32845 |
| Welford | 22048/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Little Bowden | 25918/32845 |
| William Knibb | 6572/32845 |
| Northfield (Worst) | 6669/32845 |
High Wycombe aka BTEC Slough
Desborough – It amazes me how much ********** there is
Northampton: characterless & overflowing with nobs & Eastern Europeans
Northampton, observe our loverly wide range of *****
Northampton – where apathy rules OK
Burton Latimer – **** Central Of Kettering
Daventry, town of the zombie
Northampton, a turdhole too far
Rothwell: God’s Idea of a Joke