So you are thinking of moving to Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames the land of milk and honey or are Ashford, Chertsey and Staines upon Thames a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Kingston upon Thames
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 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Lower Feltham | 49 |
| Felthamhill | 49 |
| Staines | 49 |
| Ashford | 37 |
| Littleton Common | 30 |
| Ashford Common | 28 |
| Chattern Hill | 27 |
| Knowle Green | 26 |
| Charlton | 17 |
| Thames | 7 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Kingston upon Thames. 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 Kingston upon Thames. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Staines (Best) | 12993/32845 |
| Ashford Town | 14982/32845 |
| Ashford East | 17437/32845 |
| Staines South | 18093/32845 |
| Egham Hythe | 19483/32845 |
| Laleham and Shepperton Green | 20593/32845 |
| Ashford Common | 23330/32845 |
| Riverside and Laleham | 23504/32845 |
| Sunbury Common | 8051/32845 |
| Ashford North and Stanwell South (Worst) | 9809/32845 |
Staines, the town that died of shame
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;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hounslow | 1.11% | 3.58% | 11.24% | 35.07% | 49% |
| Elmbridge | 0.66% | 2.46% | 9.44% | 30.99% | 56.45% |
| Spelthorne (Kingston upon Thames) | 0.87% | 3.23% | 12.04% | 35.82% | 48.04% |
| Runnymede | 0.75% | 2.94% | 10.89% | 34.1% | 51.32% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Sunbury Common (Best) | 19202/32845 |
| Ashford North and Stanwell South | 20591/32845 |
| Staines South | 21510/32845 |
| Egham Hythe | 21816/32845 |
| Laleham and Shepperton Green | 22592/32845 |
| Ashford Common | 24814/32845 |
| Staines | 24872/32845 |
| Ashford East | 25134/32845 |
| Ashford Town | 25186/32845 |
| Riverside and Laleham (Worst) | 28427/32845 |
How to fit in around Ashford or Stanwell
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 |
|---|---|
| Sunbury Common (Best) | 12325/32845 |
| Ashford North and Stanwell South | 14966/32845 |
| Staines South | 17263/32845 |
| Staines | 19052/32845 |
| Laleham and Shepperton Green | 19322/32845 |
| Egham Hythe | 19844/32845 |
| Ashford Common | 21797/32845 |
| Ashford East | 22294/32845 |
| Ashford Town | 25283/32845 |
| Riverside and Laleham (Worst) | 26626/32845 |
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