Moving to Dulverton, Somerset? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Dulverton in Somerset? 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 Dulverton 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 Dulverton the land of milk and honey or are Bampton, Tiverton and Winsford a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Dulverton

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 Dulverton. 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
Dulverton	4
Battleton	3
Bampton	2
Shillingford	1
Batherm	1
Barle	1
Morebath	0
Exebridge	0
Oakfordbridge	0
Oakford	0

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Castle (Best)	18296/32845
Westexe	22043/32845
Exmoor	22383/32845
Lowman	24650/32845
Cranmore	25027/32845
Dulverton & District	25744/32845
Wiveliscombe & District	27034/32845
Bishop's Nympton	30051/32845
Witheridge	31198/32845
Clare and Shuttern (Worst)	31512/32845

Reader Opinion:

Winsford, once a nice, peaceful and prosperous town

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Your Health in Dulverton

If you are thinking of moving to Dulverton, 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 Dulverton 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
North Devon	1.27%	4.34%	14.16%	33.85%	46.38%
Torridge	1.31%	4.9%	15.42%	34.84%	43.53%
Mid Devon	0.96%	3.58%	13.37%	35.44%	46.64%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Exmoor (Best)	15748/32845
Westexe	17198/32845
Dulverton & District	17220/32845
Witheridge	22837/32845
Bishop's Nympton	22968/32845
Wiveliscombe & District	23136/32845
Cranmore	23666/32845
Lowman	23913/32845
Castle	24463/32845
Clare and Shuttern (Worst)	27933/32845

Reader Opinion:

Nantwich: the place that time forgot

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Deprivation in Dulverton

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 Dulverton. 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
Bishop's Nympton (Best)	11322/32845
Witheridge	11425/32845
Westexe	12149/32845
Clare and Shuttern	14266/32845
Lowman	15723/32845
Castle	16163/32845
Wiveliscombe & District	16427/32845
Cranmore	16628/32845
Dulverton & District	9476/32845
Exmoor (Worst)	9504/32845

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