Moving to Keynsham, Somerset? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Keynsham in Somerset? 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 Keynsham 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 Keynsham the land of milk and honey or are Bristol, Kingswood and Bath a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Keynsham

Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Keynsham. 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
Chew	44
Keynsham	42
Stockwood Vale	30
Stone Hill	21
Hicks Gate	19
Hanham Green	18
Longwell Green	16
Avon	14
Bitton	7
Chewton Keynsham	2

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Keynsham North (Best)	10654/32845
Brislington East	10818/32845
St George Troopers Hill	11807/32845
Parkwall & Warmley	12785/32845
Hanham	14693/32845
Longwell Green	22442/32845
Keynsham East	22504/32845
Stockwood	7929/32845
Brislington West	7962/32845
Keynsham South (Worst)	9842/32845

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Your Health in Keynsham

If you are thinking of moving to Keynsham, 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 Keynsham 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
Bristol, City of	1.27%	4.22%	12.25%	33.46%	48.81%
Wiltshire	0.87%	3.18%	12.15%	34.05%	49.75%
South Gloucestershire	0.93%	3.26%	11.77%	34.89%	49.15%
Bath and North East Somerset (Keynsham)	0.91%	3.31%	11.85%	33.43%	50.5%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Stockwood (Best)	11499/32845
Brislington East	12517/32845
St George Troopers Hill	13798/32845
Brislington West	13953/32845
Keynsham South	20045/32845
Keynsham North	20934/32845
Parkwall & Warmley	23041/32845
Hanham	25066/32845
Longwell Green	25706/32845
Keynsham East (Worst)	28368/32845

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Deprivation in Keynsham

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 Keynsham. 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
Stockwood (Best)	12603/32845
Brislington East	13600/32845
Brislington West	14884/32845
St George Troopers Hill	16292/32845
Keynsham South	17081/32845
Keynsham North	18613/32845
Parkwall & Warmley	18687/32845
Hanham	21913/32845
Longwell Green	24819/32845
Keynsham East (Worst)	28870/32845

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