Moving to Lyme Regis, Dorset? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Lyme Regis 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 Lyme Regis 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 Lyme Regis the land of milk and honey or are Axminster, Colyton and Seaton a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Lyme Regis

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 Lyme Regis. 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
Dragon’s Hill	3
Cobb	2
Charmouth	1
Catherston Leweston	1
Uplyme	1
Champernhayes Marsh	0
Harcombe Bottom	0
Holcombe	0
Raymond’s Hill	0
Blackpool Corner	0

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Axminster (Best)	21117/32845
Bridport	23145/32845
Lyme & Charmouth	26109/32845
Seaton	27568/32845
Marshwood Vale	27606/32845
Yarty	28351/32845
Coly Valley	29639/32845
Trinity	30700/32845
Dunkeswell & Otterhead	31006/32845
Newbridges (Worst)	31315/32845

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Seaton, Devon, is over-run with pensioners

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Your Health in Lyme Regis

If you are thinking of moving to Lyme Regis, 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 Lyme Regis 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
East Devon	1.13%	3.99%	15.07%	36.02%	43.79%
Mid Devon	0.96%	3.58%	13.37%	35.44%	46.64%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Bridport (Best)	17907/32845
Seaton	20532/32845
Axminster	20633/32845
Marshwood Vale	20797/32845
Newbridges	23680/32845
Lyme & Charmouth	24500/32845
Coly Valley	26564/32845
Yarty	26872/32845
Dunkeswell & Otterhead	28357/32845
Trinity (Worst)	31774/32845

Reader Opinion:

Axminster: The worst town I have ever visited!

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Deprivation in Lyme Regis

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 Lyme Regis. 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
Bridport (Best)	15553/32845
Marshwood Vale	15756/32845
Dunkeswell & Otterhead	16959/32845
Axminster	17592/32845
Newbridges	18044/32845
Yarty	18102/32845
Coly Valley	20558/32845
Seaton	21767/32845
Lyme & Charmouth	23254/32845
Trinity (Worst)	24023/32845

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