So you're asking yourself the question 'is Esher a nice place to live?'' 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 Esher 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 Esher truly a nice place to live, or are Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton and Walton on Thames a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Esher
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 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 | 30 |
| Field Common | 29 |
| Long Ditton | 24 |
| Giggshill | 24 |
| Thames Ditton | 24 |
| Barwell | 20 |
| Hersham | 19 |
| Lower Green | 17 |
| Esher | 11 |
| Claremont Park | 3 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Esher. 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 Esher. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| 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 |
Weybridge: a quaint commuter belt town, ruined!
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 |
Hinchley Wood (Clarkson was right)
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.
