So you are thinking of moving to Dorchester in Oxfordshire? 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 Dorchester 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 Dorchester the land of milk and honey or are Abingdon, Didcot and Wallingford a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Dorchester
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 Dorchester. 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 |
|---|---|
| Berinsfield | 11 |
| Burcot | 3 |
| Shillingford | 1 |
| Thame | 1 |
| Chislehampton | 1 |
| Brookhampton | 1 |
| Stadhampton | 1 |
| Drayton St Leonard | 1 |
| Warborough | 1 |
| Long Wittenham | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Dorchester. 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 Dorchester. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Didcot South (Best) | 19322/32845 |
| Sandford & the Wittenhams | 20558/32845 |
| Berinsfield | 25596/32845 |
| Wallingford | 25634/32845 |
| Cholsey | 26683/32845 |
| Didcot North East | 28395/32845 |
| Abingdon Peachcroft | 30261/32845 |
| Chalgrove | 30527/32845 |
| Benson & Crowmarsh | 30643/32845 |
| Sutton Courtenay (Worst) | 31033/32845 |
Sherborne, a hideously deranged town that looks great from afar
Your Health in Dorchester
If you are thinking of moving to Dorchester, 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 Dorchester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford | 0.85% | 2.76% | 9.43% | 31.73% | 55.23% |
| Cherwell | 0.84% | 3% | 11.17% | 34.65% | 50.33% |
| West Berkshire | 0.68% | 2.48% | 10.7% | 34.5% | 51.64% |
| South Oxfordshire (Dorchester) | 0.73% | 2.62% | 10.73% | 33.35% | 52.56% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Dorchester. 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 Dorchester. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Didcot South (Best) | 23913/32845 |
| Berinsfield | 25431/32845 |
| Sandford & the Wittenhams | 25936/32845 |
| Wallingford | 27529/32845 |
| Sutton Courtenay | 28385/32845 |
| Didcot North East | 29392/32845 |
| Abingdon Peachcroft | 29990/32845 |
| Cholsey | 30154/32845 |
| Chalgrove | 30682/32845 |
| Benson & Crowmarsh (Worst) | 31797/32845 |
Didcot - a railway siding dressed up as a portal to real, actual hell
Deprivation in Dorchester
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 Dorchester. 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 |
|---|---|
| Berinsfield (Best) | 20463/32845 |
| Didcot South | 21983/32845 |
| Sandford & the Wittenhams | 22218/32845 |
| Sutton Courtenay | 25443/32845 |
| Wallingford | 26996/32845 |
| Cholsey | 28124/32845 |
| Chalgrove | 28268/32845 |
| Didcot North East | 28347/32845 |
| Abingdon Peachcroft | 28992/32845 |
| Benson & Crowmarsh (Worst) | 29439/32845 |
Abingdon or more accurately, “ScAbingdon”
Didcot – a railway siding dressed up as a portal to real, actual hell
Isle of Portland – Where hope goes to die
Sherborne, a hideously deranged town that looks great from afar
Weymouth: Every day is like Sunday
Axminster: The worst town I have ever visited!
The Isle of Portland: The jewel in Dorset’s butt cheeks
Wantage, Oxfordshire
Thame 2016: Still an ****** sh*t town!