Is Ludgershall, Wiltshire a nice place to live?

Is Ludgershall a nice place to live or is Ludgershall rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Ludgershall 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 Ludgershall truly a nice place to live, or are Andover, Amesbury and Tidworth a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Ludgershall?

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 Ludgershall. 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
Faberstown 10
Appleshaw 2
Clanville 2
Chute Standen 1
Lower Chute 1
Chute Cadley 1
Great Shoddesden 0
Collingbourne Ducis 0
Cadley (near Marlborough) 0
Little Shoddesden 0

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

You least likely to be a victim of crime in the Bellinger ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bellinger (Best) 30289/32845
Charlton & the Pentons 27624/32845
Tidworth 24687/32845
Andover Millway 23716/32845
Ludgershall and Perham Down 21275/32845
Bourne Valley 20855/32845
Andover Winton 19290/32845
Andover Harroway 16305/32845
Andover St Mary's 11080/32845
Andover Romans (Worst) 7081/32845
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Your Health in Ludgershall

If you are thinking of moving to Ludgershall, 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 Ludgershall compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Wiltshire (Ludgershall) 0.87% 3.18%
Swindon 0.97% 3.61%
West Berkshire 0.68% 2.48%
Test Valley 0.8% 2.97%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Charlton & the Pentons (Best) 28151/32845
Bourne Valley 27040/32845
Bellinger 25168/32845
Andover Millway 24997/32845
Andover Winton 23680/32845
Tidworth 21444/32845
Andover Harroway 20825/32845
Ludgershall and Perham Down 20701/32845
Andover St Mary's 19780/32845
Andover Romans (Worst) 14577/32845
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Deprivation in Ludgershall

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 Ludgershall. 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
Andover Millway (Best) 26528/32845
Charlton & the Pentons 25347/32845
Andover Winton 24641/32845
Bellinger 22631/32845
Tidworth 22515/32845
Andover Harroway 19416/32845
Bourne Valley 18793/32845
Ludgershall and Perham Down 16973/32845
Andover St Mary's 15476/32845
Andover Romans (Worst) 11086/32845

Average rent in Ludgershall

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Ludgershall 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 Ludgershall.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Ludgershall

If you are thinking of moving to Ludgershall, 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.

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