Moving to Minehead, Somerset? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Minehead in Somerset? 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 Minehead 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 Minehead the land of milk and honey or are Dulverton, Watchet and Winsford a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Minehead

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 Minehead. 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
Higher Town	20
Minehead	20
Alcombe	20
Marsh Street	2
Blue Anchor	0
Allerford	0
Dunster	0
Timberscombe	0
Carhampton	0
Holnicote	0

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Llantwit Major (Best)	1421/32845
Watchet & Williton	20303/32845
Porlock & District	20750/32845
Minehead Central	21541/32845
Minehead North	21583/32845
Exmoor	22383/32845
Old Cleeve & District	23942/32845
Periton & Woodcombe	25027/32845
Quantock Vale	28654/32845

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Your Health in Minehead

If you are thinking of moving to Minehead, 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 Minehead 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
Cardiff	1.6%	4.84%	12.14%	31.05%	50.37%
Bridgend	2.1%	6.8%	15.09%	29.93%	46.08%
The Vale of Glamorgan	1.49%	4.9%	13.55%	32.05%	48.01%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Watchet & Williton (Best)	10511/32845
Periton & Woodcombe	13149/32845
Minehead Central	14145/32845
Llantwit Major	1433/32845
Minehead North	14625/32845
Exmoor	15748/32845
Old Cleeve & District	15810/32845
Porlock & District	18236/32845
Quantock Vale	19866/32845

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Deprivation in Minehead

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 Minehead. 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
Old Cleeve & District (Best)	10245/32845
Porlock & District	11054/32845
Quantock Vale	11097/32845
Periton & Woodcombe	14263/32845
Llantwit Major	1520/32845
Minehead Central	15628/32845
Minehead North	16070/32845
Exmoor	9504/32845
Watchet & Williton	9630/32845

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