So you are thinking of moving to Highcliffe in Dorset? 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 Highcliffe 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 Highcliffe the land of milk and honey or are Blandford Forum, Sturminster Newton and Wimborne Minster a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Highcliffe
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 Highcliffe. 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 |
|---|---|
| Blandford Forum | 18 |
| Lower Blandford St Mary | 9 |
| Langton Long Blandford | 9 |
| Bryanston | 7 |
| Blandford St Mary | 6 |
| Pimperne | 5 |
| Stourpaine | 3 |
| Littleton | 2 |
| Charlton on the Hill | 2 |
| Blandford Camp | 2 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Highcliffe. 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 Highcliffe. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Wimborne Minster (Best) | 18287/32845 |
| Stour & Allen Vale | 23779/32845 |
| Beacon | 24111/32845 |
| Blandford | 24565/32845 |
| Cranborne Chase | 26926/32845 |
| Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants | 27815/32845 |
| Sturminster Newton | 28783/32845 |
| Blackmore Vale | 29024/32845 |
| Winterborne North | 29220/32845 |
| Puddletown & Lower Winterborne (Worst) | 30097/32845 |
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Your Health in Highcliffe
If you are thinking of moving to Highcliffe, 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 Highcliffe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest | 1.08% | 3.81% | 14.09% | 35.87% | 45.15% |
| South Somerset | 1.03% | 3.79% | 13.82% | 35.91% | 45.45% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Highcliffe. 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 Highcliffe. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Blandford (Best) | 21908/32845 |
| Winterborne North | 22493/32845 |
| Beacon | 23040/32845 |
| Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants | 23682/32845 |
| Puddletown & Lower Winterborne | 24658/32845 |
| Blackmore Vale | 24714/32845 |
| Wimborne Minster | 24785/32845 |
| Sturminster Newton | 25319/32845 |
| Cranborne Chase | 28633/32845 |
| Stour & Allen Vale (Worst) | 31219/32845 |
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Deprivation in Highcliffe
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 Highcliffe. 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 |
|---|---|
| Beacon (Best) | 15258/32845 |
| Winterborne North | 16634/32845 |
| Blackmore Vale | 17785/32845 |
| Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants | 17888/32845 |
| Cranborne Chase | 18360/32845 |
| Puddletown & Lower Winterborne | 18852/32845 |
| Blandford | 20146/32845 |
| Sturminster Newton | 20230/32845 |
| Wimborne Minster | 23208/32845 |
| Stour & Allen Vale (Worst) | 23460/32845 |
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