So you are thinking of moving to Market Harborough in Leicestershire? 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 Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough the land of milk and honey or are Corby, Desborough and Rothwell a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Market Harborough
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 Market Harborough. 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 |
|---|---|
| Market Harborough | 33 |
| Little Bowden | 28 |
| Great Bowden | 26 |
| Great Oxendon | 7 |
| Foxton | 0 |
| Marston Trussell | 0 |
| Stoke Albany | 0 |
| Church Langton | 0 |
| Ashley | 0 |
| Tur Langton | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Market Harborough. 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 Market Harborough. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Lubenham (Best) | 19168/32845 |
| Welland | 19199/32845 |
| Welford | 20075/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Little Bowden | 20223/32845 |
| Desborough Loatland | 20406/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Logan | 22614/32845 |
| Kibworths | 23179/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Welland | 24260/32845 |
| Desborough St Giles | 24866/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden (Worst) | 25152/32845 |
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Your Health in Market Harborough
If you are thinking of moving to Market Harborough, 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 Harborough 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kettering | 1.01% | 3.72% | 12.88% | 36.34% | 46.04% |
| Corby | 1.36% | 4.4% | 13.13% | 35.16% | 45.94% |
| Harborough (Market Harborough) | 0.76% | 2.75% | 11.37% | 34.27% | 50.85% |
| Oadby and Wigston | 1.09% | 3.71% | 13.4% | 36.62% | 45.19% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Market Harborough. 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 Harborough. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Lubenham (Best) | 15036/32845 |
| Desborough Loatland | 15421/32845 |
| Desborough St Giles | 16465/32845 |
| Welland | 24313/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Welland | 24933/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Logan | 25776/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Little Bowden | 25906/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden | 29077/32845 |
| Kibworths | 29460/32845 |
| Welford (Worst) | 30191/32845 |
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Deprivation in Market Harborough
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 Harborough. 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 |
|---|---|
| Lubenham (Best) | 15146/32845 |
| Welland | 19791/32845 |
| Desborough Loatland | 20003/32845 |
| Desborough St Giles | 21862/32845 |
| Welford | 22048/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Welland | 24306/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Logan | 25703/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Little Bowden | 25918/32845 |
| Kibworths | 28334/32845 |
| Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden (Worst) | 28364/32845 |
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