So you are thinking of moving to Esher in Surrey? 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 the land of milk and honey 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 November 2020 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Rydens | 46 |
| Field Common | 35 |
| Hersham | 28 |
| Giggshill | 27 |
| Long Ditton | 27 |
| Thames Ditton | 24 |
| Barwell | 20 |
| Lower Green | 17 |
| Esher | 6 |
| Claremont Park | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Walton North (Best) | 12913/32845 |
| Molesey West | 15661/32845 |
| Esher | 15876/32845 |
| Molesey East | 16744/32845 |
| Walton South | 16858/32845 |
| Hersham Village | 19014/32845 |
| Hinchley Wood and Weston Green | 19837/32845 |
| Thames Ditton | 22628/32845 |
| Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon | 24639/32845 |
| Claygate (Worst) | 27128/32845 |
Epsom: the not-so-salubrious suburb
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;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond upon Thames | 0.75% | 2.47% | 8.91% | 30.53% | 57.34% |
| Kingston upon Thames | 0.79% | 2.77% | 10.26% | 33.49% | 52.69% |
| Elmbridge (Esher) | 0.66% | 2.46% | 9.44% | 30.99% | 56.45% |
| Spelthorne | 0.87% | 3.23% | 12.04% | 35.82% | 48.04% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Walton North (Best) | 25227/32845 |
| Molesey West | 25353/32845 |
| Molesey East | 27871/32845 |
| Hersham Village | 28457/32845 |
| Esher | 28538/32845 |
| Walton South | 29620/32845 |
| Claygate | 29918/32845 |
| Hinchley Wood and Weston Green | 31060/32845 |
| Thames Ditton | 31484/32845 |
| Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon (Worst) | 32436/32845 |
Weybridge: a quaint commuter belt town, ruined!
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 |
|---|---|
| Walton North (Best) | 19920/32845 |
| Molesey West | 21180/32845 |
| Esher | 23616/32845 |
| Hersham Village | 24555/32845 |
| Molesey East | 25846/32845 |
| Walton South | 27816/32845 |
| Hinchley Wood and Weston Green | 28838/32845 |
| Claygate | 29953/32845 |
| Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon | 30351/32845 |
| Thames Ditton (Worst) | 31421/32845 |
Hinchley Wood (Clarkson was right)
Epsom: the not-so-salubrious suburb
Weybridge: a quaint commuter belt town, ruined!
Redhill is an incestuous breeding ground for God’s mistakes
West Byfleet, a town dominated by rich middle class snobs
Farnham – Surrey’s snootiest town
Woking: good train links to London apart from that it’s a sh*thole
Redhill-I hate it
Wallington, Surrey – full of ***** and betting shops