Is Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire a nice place to live?

Is Moreton in Marsh a nice place to live or is Moreton in Marsh rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Moreton in Marsh 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 Moreton in Marsh truly a nice place to live, or are Chipping Campden, Stow on the Wold and Shipston on Stour a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Moreton in Marsh?

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 Moreton in Marsh. 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
Moreton-in-Marsh 9
Lower Lemington 9
Blockley 2
Dorn 1
Batsford 1
Bourton-on-the-Hill 1
Aston Magna 0
Knee Brook 0
Geat Wolford 0
Evenlode 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Moreton in Marsh. 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 Moreton in Marsh 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 Blockley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Blockley (Best) 30706/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 29867/32845
Fosseridge 29611/32845
Campden & Vale 29074/32845
Shipston North 28496/32845
Moreton East 28197/32845
Moreton West 28197/32845
Shipston South 27276/32845
Stow 27108/32845

Your Health in Moreton in Marsh

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wychavon 0.98% 3.71%
Cheltenham 0.85% 3.14%
West Oxfordshire 0.7% 2.81%
Cotswold (Moreton in Marsh) 0.8% 3.01%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Fosseridge (Best) 28867/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 28300/32845
Campden & Vale 27718/32845
Blockley 27567/32845
Stow 24983/32845
Moreton East 24005/32845
Moreton West 24005/32845
Shipston South 23203/32845
Shipston North 23079/32845

Deprivation in Moreton in Marsh

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 Moreton in Marsh. 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
Campden & Vale (Best) 25524/32845
Shipston North 24630/32845
Shipston South 23360/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 22078/32845
Blockley 21936/32845
Stow 21764/32845
Fosseridge 21695/32845
Moreton East 21165/32845
Moreton West 21165/32845

Average rent in Moreton in Marsh

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Moreton in Marsh 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 Moreton in Marsh.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Moreton in Marsh

If you are thinking of moving to Moreton in Marsh, 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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