So you are thinking of moving to Farnham 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 Farnham 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 Farnham the land of milk and honey or are Aldershot, Fleet and North Camp a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Farnham
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 Farnham. 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 |
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Farnham | 37 |
Hale | 23 |
Heath End | 18 |
Upper Hale | 18 |
Hog Hatch | 16 |
Boundstone | 10 |
Shortheath | 10 |
The Bourne | 10 |
Lower Bourne | 10 |
Moor Park | 2 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Farnham. 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 Farnham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Farnham Upper Hale (Best) | 16764/32845 |
Farnham Moor Park | 21553/32845 |
Farnham Castle | 22926/32845 |
Farnham Wrecclesham and Rowledge | 24792/32845 |
Farnham Weybourne and Badshot Lea | 26513/32845 |
Crookham West and Ewshot | 26666/32845 |
Farnham Shortheath and Boundstone | 26997/32845 |
Farnham Firgrove | 27670/32845 |
Farnham Hale and Heath End | 28536/32845 |
Farnham Bourne (Worst) | 30565/32845 |
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Your Health in Farnham
If you are thinking of moving to Farnham, 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 Farnham 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 |
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East Hampshire | 0.82% | 2.89% | 11.15% | 34.7% | 50.45% |
Waverley (Farnham) | 0.72% | 2.53% | 10.5% | 32.72% | 53.52% |
Rushmoor | 0.82% | 2.8% | 10.77% | 35.54% | 50.07% |
Hart | 0.56% | 2.08% | 9.26% | 33.09% | 55.01% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Farnham. 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 Farnham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Farnham Castle (Best) | 23434/32845 |
Farnham Upper Hale | 23633/32845 |
Farnham Weybourne and Badshot Lea | 25828/32845 |
Farnham Firgrove | 26612/32845 |
Farnham Moor Park | 26672/32845 |
Farnham Shortheath and Boundstone | 26960/32845 |
Farnham Hale and Heath End | 28001/32845 |
Farnham Wrecclesham and Rowledge | 28624/32845 |
Crookham West and Ewshot | 31384/32845 |
Farnham Bourne (Worst) | 31599/32845 |
The Hole that is Fareham
Deprivation in Farnham
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 Farnham. 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 |
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Farnham Upper Hale (Best) | 22267/32845 |
Farnham Moor Park | 25678/32845 |
Farnham Castle | 26501/32845 |
Farnham Shortheath and Boundstone | 27410/32845 |
Farnham Firgrove | 28614/32845 |
Farnham Wrecclesham and Rowledge | 28996/32845 |
Farnham Weybourne and Badshot Lea | 29438/32845 |
Farnham Hale and Heath End | 29682/32845 |
Crookham West and Ewshot | 30434/32845 |
Farnham Bourne (Worst) | 32425/32845 |
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