Is Esher, Surrey a nice place to live?

Is Esher a nice place to live or is Esher rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Esher 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 Esher truly a nice place to live, or are Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton and Walton on Thames a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Esher?

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 Esher. 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
Rydens 33
Field Common 32
Hersham 25
Barwell 18
Thames Ditton 17
Esher 17
Lower Green 15
Giggshill 14
Long Ditton 14
Claremont Park 3

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Esher. 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 Esher 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 Claygate ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Claygate (Best) 27128/32845
Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon 24639/32845
Thames Ditton 22628/32845
Hinchley Wood and Weston Green 19837/32845
Hersham Village 19014/32845
Walton South 16858/32845
Molesey East 16744/32845
Esher 15876/32845
Molesey West 15661/32845
Walton North (Worst) 12913/32845
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Your Health in Esher

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Richmond upon Thames 0.75% 2.47%
Kingston upon Thames 0.79% 2.77%
Elmbridge (Esher) 0.66% 2.46%
Spelthorne 0.87% 3.23%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon (Best) 32436/32845
Thames Ditton 31484/32845
Hinchley Wood and Weston Green 31060/32845
Claygate 29918/32845
Walton South 29620/32845
Esher 28538/32845
Hersham Village 28457/32845
Molesey East 27871/32845
Molesey West 25353/32845
Walton North (Worst) 25227/32845
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Deprivation in Esher

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 Esher. 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
Thames Ditton (Best) 31421/32845
Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon 30351/32845
Claygate 29953/32845
Hinchley Wood and Weston Green 28838/32845
Walton South 27816/32845
Molesey East 25846/32845
Hersham Village 24555/32845
Esher 23616/32845
Molesey West 21180/32845
Walton North (Worst) 19920/32845

Average rent in Esher

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Esher

If you are thinking of moving to Esher, 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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