Is Diss, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Diss a nice place to live or is Diss rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Diss 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 Diss truly a nice place to live, or are Attleborough, Redenhall with Harleston and Eye a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Diss?

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 Diss. 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
Frenze 12
Waterloo 8
Brewers Green 6
Audley End 2
Bridge Green 2
Bressingham Common 1
Palgrave 1
Roydon 0
Great Green 0
Shelfanger 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Diss. 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 Diss 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 Bunwell ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bunwell (Best) 30687/32845
Guiltcross 28502/32845
Eye 27603/32845
Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole 27534/32845
Bressingham & Burston 26550/32845
Rickinghall 26400/32845
The Buckenhams & Banham 26225/32845
Barningham 23428/32845
Diss & Roydon 22641/32845
Gislingham (Worst) 22079/32845
Reader Opinion:

Diss, at least it sounds like a nice place

Your Health in Diss

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Breckland 1.18% 4.31%
South Norfolk (Diss) 1.02% 3.46%
Mid Suffolk 0.83% 3.12%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Gislingham (Best) 29764/32845
Eye 28421/32845
Rickinghall 27025/32845
The Buckenhams & Banham 25793/32845
Bunwell 25359/32845
Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole 23397/32845
Barningham 22679/32845
Bressingham & Burston 22321/32845
Diss & Roydon 22308/32845
Guiltcross (Worst) 18063/32845

Deprivation in Diss

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 Diss. 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
Rickinghall (Best) 20295/32845
Barningham 19656/32845
Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole 19335/32845
Diss & Roydon 18984/32845
Eye 18688/32845
Gislingham 18655/32845
The Buckenhams & Banham 17357/32845
Guiltcross 16873/32845
Bunwell 16376/32845
Bressingham & Burston (Worst) 13579/32845

Average rent in Diss

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Diss

If you are thinking of moving to Diss, 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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