Is Eton, Berkshire a nice place to live?

Is Eton a nice place to live or is Eton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Eton 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 Eton truly a nice place to live, or are Slough, Windsor and Egham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Eton?

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 Eton. 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
Grand Union Canal 222
Manor Park 202
Salt Hill 191
Chalvey 125
Eton 84
South Field 43
Eton Wick 30
Spital 28
Thames 8

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Eton. 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 Eton 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 Clewer & Dedworth West ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clewer & Dedworth West (Best) 22379/32845
Clewer East 20815/32845
Old Windsor 20544/32845
Clewer & Dedworth East 18386/32845
Cippenham Green 14950/32845
Cippenham Meadows 13348/32845
Eton & Castle 12798/32845
Upton 10167/32845
Chalvey 8450/32845
Central (Worst) 7286/32845
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Your Health in Eton

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Slough 0.99% 3.5%
Wycombe 0.78% 2.71%
Windsor and Maidenhead (Eton) 0.75% 2.68%
South Bucks 0.84% 2.93%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Old Windsor (Best) 29809/32845
Eton & Castle 28210/32845
Clewer & Dedworth West 26800/32845
Clewer & Dedworth East 22873/32845
Clewer East 22790/32845
Upton 19672/32845
Cippenham Green 16802/32845
Cippenham Meadows 15195/32845
Central 14470/32845
Chalvey (Worst) 10506/32845
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Deprivation in Eton

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 Eton. 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
Old Windsor (Best) 28033/32845
Clewer & Dedworth West 26493/32845
Clewer East 26018/32845
Eton & Castle 25934/32845
Clewer & Dedworth East 22701/32845
Cippenham Green 17192/32845
Upton 15711/32845
Cippenham Meadows 13746/32845
Central 11022/32845
Chalvey (Worst) 9268/32845

Average rent in Eton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Eton

If you are thinking of moving to Eton, 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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