Is Kingston upon Thames a nice place to live or is Kingston upon Thames rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames truly a nice place to live, or are Ashford, Chertsey and Staines upon Thames a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Kingston upon Thames?
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 Kingston upon Thames. 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 |
|---|---|
| Staines | 91 |
| Lower Feltham | 67 |
| Felthamhill | 67 |
| Ashford | 54 |
| Knowle Green | 51 |
| Chattern Hill | 49 |
| Charlton | 36 |
| Ashford Common | 35 |
| Littleton Common | 35 |
| Thames | 18 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Kingston upon Thames. 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 Kingston upon Thames and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Riverside and Laleham (Best) | 23504/32845 |
| Ashford Common | 23330/32845 |
| Laleham and Shepperton Green | 20593/32845 |
| Egham Hythe | 19483/32845 |
| Staines South | 18093/32845 |
| Ashford East | 17437/32845 |
| Ashford Town | 14982/32845 |
| Staines | 12993/32845 |
| Ashford North and Stanwell South | 9809/32845 |
| Sunbury Common (Worst) | 8051/32845 |
Ashford, once a village, became ruined due to the airport
Your Health in Kingston upon Thames
If you are thinking of moving to Kingston upon Thames, 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 Kingston upon Thames compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Hounslow | 1.11% | 3.58% |
| Elmbridge | 0.66% | 2.46% |
| Spelthorne (Kingston upon Thames) | 0.87% | 3.23% |
| Runnymede | 0.75% | 2.94% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Kingston upon Thames. 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 Kingston upon Thames. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Riverside and Laleham (Best) | 28427/32845 |
| Ashford Town | 25186/32845 |
| Ashford East | 25134/32845 |
| Staines | 24872/32845 |
| Ashford Common | 24814/32845 |
| Laleham and Shepperton Green | 22592/32845 |
| Egham Hythe | 21816/32845 |
| Staines South | 21510/32845 |
| Ashford North and Stanwell South | 20591/32845 |
| Sunbury Common (Worst) | 19202/32845 |
Marlow: breeding ground for Narcissists
Deprivation in Kingston upon Thames
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 Kingston upon Thames. 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 |
|---|---|
| Riverside and Laleham (Best) | 26626/32845 |
| Ashford Town | 25283/32845 |
| Ashford East | 22294/32845 |
| Ashford Common | 21797/32845 |
| Egham Hythe | 19844/32845 |
| Laleham and Shepperton Green | 19322/32845 |
| Staines | 19052/32845 |
| Staines South | 17263/32845 |
| Ashford North and Stanwell South | 14966/32845 |
| Sunbury Common (Worst) | 12325/32845 |
Average rent in Kingston upon Thames
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Kingston upon Thames
If you are thinking of moving to Kingston upon Thames, 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.
