Is Epping a nice place to live or is Epping rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Epping 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 Epping truly a nice place to live, or are Harlow, Loughton and Waltham Abbey a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Epping?
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 Epping. 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 |
|---|---|
| Epping | 19 |
| Coopersale Common | 17 |
| Gernon Bushes | 17 |
| Ivy Chimneys | 10 |
| Bell Common | 7 |
| North Weald Bassett | 5 |
| Fiddlers Hamlet | 3 |
| Coopersale Street | 3 |
| Hobbs Cross | 0 |
| Epping Upland | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Epping. 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 Epping and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Moreton and Fyfield (Best) | 17679/32845 |
| Sumners and Kingsmoor | 16069/32845 |
| Epping Hemnall | 14331/32845 |
| Theydon Bois | 13741/32845 |
| Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common | 13658/32845 |
| North Weald Bassett | 13478/32845 |
| Loughton Fairmead | 8046/32845 |
| Passingford | 5635/32845 |
| Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing | 5071/32845 |
| Waltham Abbey High Beach (Worst) | 3581/32845 |
Hertford: fetid with the haughty stench of smug self righteousness
Your Health in Epping
If you are thinking of moving to Epping, 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 Epping compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 1.34% | 4.11% |
| Epping Forest (Epping) | 1.04% | 3.56% |
| Harlow | 1.21% | 4.15% |
| Broxbourne | 1.04% | 3.59% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Epping. 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 Epping. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Theydon Bois (Best) | 29299/32845 |
| Moreton and Fyfield | 26917/32845 |
| Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common | 26602/32845 |
| Epping Hemnall | 26345/32845 |
| Passingford | 26159/32845 |
| Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing | 25555/32845 |
| North Weald Bassett | 24004/32845 |
| Waltham Abbey High Beach | 22158/32845 |
| Loughton Fairmead | 17931/32845 |
| Sumners and Kingsmoor (Worst) | 14835/32845 |
Harlow - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter...
Deprivation in Epping
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 Epping. 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 |
|---|---|
| Theydon Bois (Best) | 28018/32845 |
| Epping Hemnall | 23728/32845 |
| Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common | 20901/32845 |
| North Weald Bassett | 19947/32845 |
| Sumners and Kingsmoor | 15269/32845 |
| Moreton and Fyfield | 14571/32845 |
| Loughton Fairmead | 13842/32845 |
| Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing | 13013/32845 |
| Passingford | 9468/32845 |
| Waltham Abbey High Beach (Worst) | 8666/32845 |
Average rent in Epping
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Epping 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 Epping.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Epping
If you are thinking of moving to Epping, 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.
