Is Market Bosworth, Leicestershire a nice place to live?

Is Market Bosworth a nice place to live or is Market Bosworth rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Market Bosworth 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 Market Bosworth truly a nice place to live, or are Earl Shilton, Hinckley and Atherstone a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Market Bosworth?

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 Market Bosworth. 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
Newbold Heath 12
Barlestone 10
Newbold Verdon 7
Bufton 3
Barton in the Beans 3
Carlton 3
Market Bosworth 0
Cadeby 0
Belcher’s Bar 0
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Market Bosworth. 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 Market Bosworth 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 Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone (Best) 25391/32845
Hinckley De Montfort 21827/32845
Barlestone, Nailstone and Osbaston 21515/32845
Hinckley Clarendon 20318/32845
Ibstock East 18573/32845
Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton 17577/32845
Barwell 16460/32845
Hinckley Trinity 16118/32845
Sence Valley 16069/32845
Ibstock West (Worst) 12920/32845
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Your Health in Market Bosworth

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Nuneaton and Bedworth 1.4% 4.81%
North West Leicestershire 1.15% 3.99%
Hinckley and Bosworth (Market Bosworth) 0.98% 3.63%
Blaby 0.88% 3.28%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone (Best) 28103/32845
Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton 25127/32845
Barlestone, Nailstone and Osbaston 24049/32845
Hinckley De Montfort 21008/32845
Hinckley Clarendon 20585/32845
Ibstock West 19937/32845
Sence Valley 19466/32845
Ibstock East 18214/32845
Barwell 17662/32845
Hinckley Trinity (Worst) 15003/32845
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Deprivation in Market Bosworth

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 Market Bosworth. 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
Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone (Best) 28267/32845
Barlestone, Nailstone and Osbaston 24370/32845
Hinckley De Montfort 22943/32845
Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton 22649/32845
Hinckley Clarendon 19700/32845
Sence Valley 18890/32845
Ibstock West 18695/32845
Ibstock East 18137/32845
Barwell 16014/32845
Hinckley Trinity (Worst) 15661/32845

Average rent in Market Bosworth

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Market Bosworth

If you are thinking of moving to Market Bosworth, 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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