So you are thinking of moving to Melton Mowbray 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 Melton Mowbray 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 Melton Mowbray the land of milk and honey or are Syston, Cotgrave and Oakham a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Melton Mowbray
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Melton Mowbray. 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 |
|---|---|
| Asfordby | 5 |
| Asfordby Hill | 4 |
| Potter Hill | 4 |
| Great Dalby | 0 |
| Upper End | 0 |
| Nether End | 0 |
| Holwell | 0 |
| Ab Kettleby | 0 |
| Wartnaby | 0 |
| Little Dalby | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Melton Mowbray. 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 Melton Mowbray. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Melton Warwick (Best) | 12581/32845 |
| Melton Egerton | 12634/32845 |
| Melton Craven | 18267/32845 |
| Asfordby | 19595/32845 |
| Melton Newport | 22157/32845 |
| Melton Sysonby | 22305/32845 |
| Waltham-on-the-Wolds | 23298/32845 |
| Melton Dorian | 23852/32845 |
| Frisby-on-the-Wreake | 26738/32845 |
| Gaddesby (Worst) | 28819/32845 |
Oakham, sounds a lovely town, never could an impression be quite so wrong
Your Health in Melton Mowbray
If you are thinking of moving to Melton Mowbray, 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 Melton Mowbray 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Kesteven | 1.04% | 3.74% | 13.28% | 35.13% | 46.81% |
| Harborough | 0.76% | 2.75% | 11.37% | 34.27% | 50.85% |
| Melton (Melton Mowbray) | 0.78% | 2.88% | 12.5% | 35.52% | 48.33% |
| Rutland | 0.76% | 2.7% | 12.13% | 34.03% | 50.38% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Melton Mowbray. 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 Melton Mowbray. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Melton Egerton (Best) | 18508/32845 |
| Melton Warwick | 19246/32845 |
| Melton Craven | 19433/32845 |
| Melton Dorian | 20341/32845 |
| Melton Sysonby | 22285/32845 |
| Asfordby | 22794/32845 |
| Melton Newport | 23934/32845 |
| Waltham-on-the-Wolds | 24522/32845 |
| Gaddesby | 27510/32845 |
| Frisby-on-the-Wreake (Worst) | 31843/32845 |
Deprivation in Melton Mowbray
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 Melton Mowbray. 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 |
|---|---|
| Melton Egerton (Best) | 16003/32845 |
| Melton Craven | 18640/32845 |
| Melton Warwick | 19502/32845 |
| Gaddesby | 20695/32845 |
| Asfordby | 22120/32845 |
| Melton Sysonby | 23226/32845 |
| Melton Dorian | 23358/32845 |
| Frisby-on-the-Wreake | 23423/32845 |
| Waltham-on-the-Wolds | 24929/32845 |
| Melton Newport (Worst) | 25698/32845 |
Fleckney, Leicestershire, avoid this town like the plague
Sileby – A depressing town with a shameful history
Melton Mowbray: Neanderthals loiter outside McDonalds, with not one GCSE in Car Theft between them
Leicester – The Cheater’s Haven
Coalville: most of the inhabitants walk around in a zombie like state
Hinckley: Pretensions To Adequacy
Loughborough – Bells and Bell-Ends
At Leicester’s Clock Tower, smell the stench of BO & cheap perfume
Markfield: Christ, this place is awful!