So you are thinking of moving to Flitwick in Bedfordshire? 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 Flitwick 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 Flitwick the land of milk and honey or are Houghton Regis, Woburn and Woburn Sands a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Flitwick
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Flitwick. 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 |
|---|---|
| Ampthill | 16 |
| Cooper’s Hill | 13 |
| Harlington | 5 |
| Silsoe | 5 |
| Greenfield | 4 |
| Wardhedges | 3 |
| Maulden | 2 |
| Green End | 2 |
| Tingrith | 1 |
| Millbrook | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Flitwick. 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 Flitwick. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Houghton Conquest and Haynes (Best) | 19180/32845 |
| Ampthill | 23179/32845 |
| Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield | 23824/32845 |
| Flitwick | 24263/32845 |
| Wootton | 25658/32845 |
| Aspley and Woburn | 25882/32845 |
| Barton-le-Clay | 25890/32845 |
| Wilshamstead | 26001/32845 |
| Silsoe and Shillington | 27138/32845 |
| Heath and Reach (Worst) | 8457/32845 |
Your Health in Flitwick
If you are thinking of moving to Flitwick, 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 Flitwick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luton | 1.2% | 3.73% | 12.44% | 36.07% | 46.56% |
| Milton Keynes | 0.94% | 3.2% | 10.82% | 34.88% | 50.17% |
| Central Bedfordshire (Flitwick) | 0.84% | 3.02% | 11.48% | 35.52% | 49.15% |
| Bedford | 0.98% | 3.55% | 12.58% | 35.98% | 46.9% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Flitwick. 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 Flitwick. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Wootton (Best) | 21350/32845 |
| Wilshamstead | 23877/32845 |
| Heath and Reach | 24199/32845 |
| Flitwick | 26644/32845 |
| Aspley and Woburn | 26921/32845 |
| Barton-le-Clay | 27448/32845 |
| Houghton Conquest and Haynes | 27812/32845 |
| Ampthill | 27994/32845 |
| Silsoe and Shillington | 29834/32845 |
| Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield (Worst) | 30001/32845 |
Deprivation in Flitwick
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 Flitwick. 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 |
|---|---|
| Heath and Reach (Best) | 16469/32845 |
| Houghton Conquest and Haynes | 21744/32845 |
| Aspley and Woburn | 25233/32845 |
| Wootton | 25419/32845 |
| Silsoe and Shillington | 27095/32845 |
| Wilshamstead | 27205/32845 |
| Ampthill | 27216/32845 |
| Flitwick | 27370/32845 |
| Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield | 28265/32845 |
| Barton-le-Clay (Worst) | 28884/32845 |
Sandy, Bedfordshire – **** Island
Bedford, It’s never ending, It’s hell
Luton – not as bad as it was, but still dicey
Bedford: Things started to slide back in the 80s
Bedford, the place is riddled with strange and backwards people
Wootton – located on the darkest recess of Satan’s inner ******
Why Luton sucks…. a list
Bedford – billed to be the Garden of Eden, but ended up like Stalinist Russia!
Toddington, a horrible village full of wannabe ‘Lutoners’